German MEP wants to postpone vote on agreement with the US

Member of the European Parliament Bernd Lange has proposed postponing the vote on the trade agreement between the EU and the US, which is scheduled for next week. According to him, the conditions and legal basis on which the agreement was concluded have changed.

He was responding to developments in the United States, where the Supreme Court on Friday overturned President Donald Trump's global tariffs. Trump then introduced a temporary 10 percent tariff, which he raised to 15 percent on Saturday.

"Pure tariff chaos on the part of the US administration. No one can understand it anymore—only open questions and growing uncertainty for the EU and other US trading partners," Lange wrote on social network X.

He stressed that the agreement from last year's meeting in Turnberry, Scotland, requires clarity in light of the new circumstances.

Under the agreement, the EU was to lift tariffs on many US products in exchange for a 15 percent US tariff on most exports from the European Union. However, the reduction of tariffs by the EU is subject to approval by the member states and the European Parliament. The Parliament temporarily suspended work on the agreement last month.

(reuters, max)