Trump suspends metal tariffs for EU, key US trade partners

President Donald Trump today suspended his controversial tariffs on steel and aluminium imports for the US' key trade partners, including the European Union.

The countries temporarily exempted from the Trump administration's new 25 per cent import tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium are the EU members states, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea, the White House said
He said, "The necessary and appropriate means to address the threat to the national security posed by imports from steel articles from these countries is to continue these discussions and to exempt steel articles imports from these countries from the tariff, at least at this time."