The European Union’s trade commissioner will travel to the United States on Sunday in a bid to reach a negotiation, a spokesperson has said, as fallout from Trump’s tariffs escalates.

Maros Sefcovic, the bloc’s trade commissioner, will travel to Washington, DC, to “try and sign deals,” an EU spokesperson told Ireland’s RTE radio Friday morning.

“That is what we are focused on. All options are on the table should that not lead to a good outcome,” Olof Gill, the spokesperson, said.

The EU was due to have a hefty 20% tariff slapped on its goods exported to America before US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on his country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs on Wednesday.

But French President Emmanual Macron labeled the pause “fragile” in a post on X on Friday, noting that Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminum and automobiles, as well as a 10% across-the-board levy on most US imports, remain intact.

“This 90-day pause means 90 days of uncertainty for all our businesses, on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond,” Macron said.

“Significant blow”: Elsewhere in Europe, the bloc’s economy minister said Trump’s remaining 10% tariff is a “blow to the global economy.”

Valdis Dombrovskis welcomed Trump’s 90-day pause on the most punishing “reciprocal” tariffs, but said the US president’s trade policy had made the global economic outlook “more unpredictable.”

“Europe did not start this confrontation, and Europe does not want this confrontation,” Dombrovskis said at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland.

This post has been updated with additional details.