The new twist of Donald Trump in its tariff policy it leaves the trade agreement signed in the summer between the European Union and the United States in the air. The pact was to be ratified in European Parliamentwhich however is proposed to be left on hold until the terms of the new 15% tariffs that the US president has announced are clarified, in response to the ruling of his country’s Supreme Court that on Friday struck down most of the tariffs.
Trump’s reaction now compromises the trade relationship with Europe. The president of the Trade Committee of the European Parliament (INTA), Bernd Langehas announced that it will ask this Monday to suspend the ratification process of the trade agreement between the EU and the US. At first, the US president imposed a 10% tariff, but just one day later, this Saturday, he raised this toll to 15%.
In a statement published on social networks, Lange ruthlessly attacked the tariff policy of the United States and its president, a “Pure chaos of the US Administration“. “No one understands it at this point. There are only unanswered questions and increasing uncertainty for the European Union and the rest of the United States’ trading partners,” added Lange, before declaring himself convinced that the “terms and legal bases“of the agreement reached in August 2025 in Turnberry (Scotland) between Trump and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, “they have changed.”
Lange openly wondered if the new tariffs “could constitute a breach of the Turnberry agreement“, but “in any case it doesn’t matter because no one knows if the United States is going to respect it, or if it will even be capable of respecting it.” For all this, and given that “clarity and legal certainty are needed before taking new steps in this regard”Lange announced that this Monday he will propose that “the European Parliament team” that is negotiating the ratification of the agreement “park your legislative work until the United States provides an adequate legal assessment” of what is happening” and declare a clear commitment“in favor of the trade agreement.
Supreme Court blow
Trump’s new tariffs are retaliation against decision adopted on Friday by the Supreme Court of the country against its tariff policy. The high court on Friday invalidated the effect of most tariffs that the Republican has imposed, which affects, among many other trading partners, the European Union, and some of the taxes Mexico, Canada and China.
The high court considers that Trump has violated the Constitution by using the External Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs on most of its trading partners, exceeding the law itself and usurping the powers that Congress should grant by vote. “The IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs“, rules the high court.
“When the Congress has delegated its tariff powers has done so in explicit terms and subject to strict limits“the judge wrote John Robertspresident of the Supreme Court, pointing out that the Trump Administration’s interpretation of the rule “would represent a transformative expansion of his authority on tariff policy”.
Trump calls judges “lapdogs”
President Trump responded strongly angrily to the judicial decision and directly attacked the judges: “I am ashamed of the judges who voted against, they are a shame for our country”, defended the American president at a press conference at the White House. ““They are not patriots and have not been loyal to our Constitution.”he continued. “They are being fools and lapdogs of the RHINES (Republicans in name only) and the radical left democrats“.
In that first appearance, Trump announced new liens of 10% under another instrument such as Section 122 of the Trade Law of 1974, which enables the president to impose maximum tariffs of 15% for a initial period of 150 days. After that time, however, the tariffs can only be extended with the consent of the US Congress.
A day later, Trump gave another twist and announced that these new tariffs would go from 10 to 15%: “After an exhaustive, detailed and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly drafted and extraordinarily un-American decision on tariffs issued yesterday,” Trump announced in reference to the Court’s decision, “I will, with immediate effect, increase the global tariff from 10% to the fully permitted and legally verified level of 15%.”
The Supreme Court decision known on Friday ratifies the August ruling of an appeals court, which already overturned the legal tool used by Trump to set his economic policies. By then, Trump was already very harsh about the decision: “In many ways, we would become a Third World nation“, without hope of greatness,” he said on his social network. His economic advisor Pete Navarro went even further. “If we lose the case, Trump is right: “It will be the end of the United States.”
