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On Friday morning, Mr. Trump in a social post in truth announced that he recommended a 50 percent tariff for European imports on the 1st June and claims that the trade obstacles, taxes, corporate penalties and other blocks of the block would have contributed to a “completely unacceptable” trade weight with the United States.

“The European Union, which was founded as the main purpose of taking advantage of the United States for trade, was very difficult to cope with,” wrote Trump, adding, “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!”

The surprise announcement takes place after months of talking back and forth between the two enormous economies, which, as Mr. Trump suggested, made limited progress.

European officials have tackled negotiations as if they were thinking with an ally. However, you have met with a Trump government that sees this less as an opportunity for two geopolitical friends to look for a solution that is advantageous for both sides – and rather as an opportunity to put pressure on a commercial rival, to make concessions.

Mr. Trump imposed a round after taking office in January after taking office in January after taking office in January. He has hit sectors such as Steel and aluminum and cars with specific tariffs and at the same time threatens to bring most of the American trading partners over the entire board tax. But in April he announced that he would pause this latter category for a period of 90 days when the federal states negotiated business.

The president's announcement would not only the European Union with these renowned tariffs before the end of this planned negotiation, but also more than doubled how the block is expected.

In the talks, the political decision-makers of the BLOC proposed what they have invoiced as win-win solutions, including a plan to fall to zero tariffs for industrial products and buy more American gas.

However, the American negotiators searched for disposable offers, diplomats, civil servants and people who are familiar with the negotiations, and the officials of the White House themselves have implied that this is not a giving and taking. It's just a setting.

“I think the president believes that the EU proposals were not of the same quality that we saw from our other important trading partners,” said Scott Bessent, the US Finance Minister, in Fox News on Friday.

Customs are just an arena in which the United States have revised their relationship with Europe, which has been the closest allies for generations.

Mr. Trump, in Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, made oral shots and retired from full support for Ukraine in his war against Russia. He insisted that America will no longer enter into the legislative template for the security of Europe, and even suggested that it may not be supported by NATO members, which he says is not enough for their own defense.

While Mr. Trump deals with the basic contours of the relationship between the USA and Europe, he puts the block under pressure to make several trade-related changes that EU officials do not even want to consider.

Mr. Trump wants the European nations to do their VAT system, an important consumption tax, which the negotiators say, not on the table. Administrative officers have proposed that Europe changes the food standards in such a way that it imports more American beef-a further non-starter.

Administrative officers have also come to Europe to regulate digital services and social media companies -also guidelines that European civil servants did not want to rethink.

But in contrast to smaller economies such as Great Britain, which have already concluded a contract with the Trump government, the European Union has sufficiently sufficiently sufficient trade relationship with the United States that their officials believed that they had a certain influence.

After a few measures, Europe's trade relationship with the United States is the largest in the world. Almost 5 billion US dollars of goods and services of almost 5 billion US dollars exceed the Atlantic between the two partners every day. And while Europe is selling more goods than it buys – the trading deficit in 2023 was around 180 billion US dollars – it buys more American services than it sells back.

Maros Sefcovic, the EU trade commissioner, and his colleagues have repeatedly traveled to Washington to talk to Howard Lutnick, the Commercial Secretary, and Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative.

Mr. Sefcovic spoke on Friday after Mr. Trump's threat with his colleagues in the USA and then stopped on social media that “the EU-US trade is unsurpassed and must be guided by mutual respect and not by threats. We are ready to defend our interests.”

European officials not only offer offers, but also prepared two waves of countermeasures that would make American goods that come to Europe with higher tariffs if no deal is achieved. The second set of jobs that are aimed at 95 billion euros to American goods that could range from bourbon to soybeans is still refined.

Neither Europe's offers nor its threats were warmly welcomed by the administration.

“There are some countries that, like the European Union, are impossible,” said Lutnick at an Axios event at the beginning of this week.

Analysts in Washington and Brussels said on Friday that they regarded the 50 percent tariff as a negotiation tactic. But how the feud could come loose was unclear.

“There is a serious daylight between the expectations of the EU to what it can achieve in these talks and what the US government is ready,” said Jörn Fleck, Senior Director of the Europa Center of the Atlantic Council in Washington.

If 50 percent tariffs would actually become effective and would take it, they would crush themselves for the block. The European Union is currently being exposed to 10 percent of the total board tariffs in its exports, as in other nations. After the 90-day break in July, the block awaited that it was exposed to 20 percent tariffs, based on what the United States had previously announced.

The European officials have chosen hope that instead the tariffs would return to something that prevailed ago this year, a reduction by the current 10 percent rate. But that's not what Mr. Trump's team currently offers.

“The president will decide whether he has made us an offer to change his tariff medicine,” said Lutnick at the beginning of this week. “If you have not made us an offer that changes it, the president will write you a letter that says:” Dear Land A, we appreciate it very much to do business with you. Here is your tariff set. “

And he said, “There will be no floor under 10.”

Melissa Eddy Contribution reporting from Berlin and Ana Swanson From Washington.