Germany – the EU's biggest economy which has been stagnating in recent years – has been hit hard by Trump's tariffs blitz.
"We want to achieve stability and predictability in trade relations," Merz's spokesman Sebastian Hille said Friday. "A united stance within the European Union is important in this regard."
After the Supreme Court ruled Friday that Trump lacks authority to impose levies under a 1977 law, the US leader responded with fresh tariffs of 10 percent on imported goods – and then vowed to hike them further to 15 percent.
That raised complex questions about what the new duties mean for the EU deal clinched last year with Trump, which set tariffs at 15 percent for most EU goods.
The bloc's parliament put the EU-US deal on ice Monday as it sought more clarity on the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling, only a day before the committee was due to give its green light.
Hille said that Germany welcomed "signals from the US government that it intends to honour the agreements reached with the EU".
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"Businesses need planning security, and that applies on both sides of the Atlantic," he said.
"We therefore expect clarity from the US government on the next steps. We want to achieve stability and predictability in trade relations."
Merz will leave for Washington on Monday before meeting Trump at the Oval Office on Tuesday, Hille said.
The German chancellor last visited Trump at the White House last June.
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