BRUSSELS: The EU's retaliatory tariffs on US goods worth 21 billion euros will be on hold until Jul 14, Brussels said on Monday (Apr 14), to give time for negotiations with Washington. The European Union was hit with a 20 per cent rate as part of Trump's sweeping tariffs on Apr 2, before he suspended the measures for 90 days a week later. To give breathing room for negotiations, the EU, in turn, last week halted its countermeasures on previously enacted US tariffs on steel, aluminium, and the