The European Union (EU) has delayed plans to hit back at US President Donald Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs until the middle of next month. The trading bloc was set to impose duties on US products, including a 50% levy on whiskey, from 1 April to which Trump then responded with a 200% alcohol tariff threat.

The European Union plans to impose new tariffs on imports of certain U.S. products such as bourbon whiskey, jeans, motorcycles, boats and peanut butter in mid-April. The measure i

April its retaliatory trade action over the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to 25%, senior officials said on Thursday.The EU had intended to impose measures on goods from the United States worth some 26 billion euros (£21.