The European Union is delaying until mid-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 European Union will wait until mid-April to impose retaliatory tariffs against some U.S. imports—including a 50% tax on American whiskey—to allow time for negotiations with the U.S. and a review of the products that will be subject to the new tax, the EU’s governing body, The European Commission, announced Thursday.

The European Union will delay tariffs on U.S. exports into the trading bloc in response to the imposition of tariffs on European aluminum and steel, a measure announced in February by the White