'I'm ready to go to 500' billion: Trump threatens tariffs on all Chinese goods coming to America

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• President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on all Chinese goods imported to the US.
• "I'm ready to go to 500," Trump said in an interview with CNBC's Joe Kernen aired on Friday morning.
• That figure references the $505 billion dollars worth of goods imported from China in 2017, according to Census Bureau data.

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President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to place tariffs on all goods imported to the US from China in a major escalation of the burgeoning trade war between the two nations.

"I'm ready to go to 500," Trump said in an interview with CNBC's Joe Kernen aired on Friday morning.

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