BRUSSELS — The European Parliament froze ratification of the EU’s trade deal with the United States on Monday amid concerns that President Donald Trump’s latest tariff broadside breaches the terms of the transatlantic accord struck last summer.
Senior trade lawmakers pulled the emergency brake after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down the main tariffs on which the deal, reached at Trump’s Turnberry Scottish golf resort last July, had been based. Trump said Saturday he would impose a global tariff of 15 percent under a new legal authority — triggering alarm across the bloc.
“The decision to postpone the vote on the implementation of the U.S. deal is the right one. Given the current enormous uncertainty, a vote would be unjustifiable,” said Anna Cavazzini, who represents the Greens.
A second lawmaker, Željana Zovko of the center-right European People’s Party, confirmed the delay but nonetheless called for the European Parliament to hold a final vote on the Turnberry accord next month.
