Trump prepares coarse ammunition in trade war: 100% tariff on Chinese imports

The US President, Donald Trump was willing to apply new tariffs to all imports from China .

"I'm ready to go to the 500" said Trump in an interview with CNBC. The figure refers to the value of $ 505,500 million Chinese imports to the United States in 2017. According to Washington, that year, the United States only exported 129,900 million ] in China .

"We have been scammed by China for a long time ," said Trump, who justifies his additional tariffs for his country's trade deficit with the Asian giant.

"I do not want you to be scared, I want you to do well" he said about the Chinese . "I like President Xi (Jinping) but it was very unfair" he added.

Trump has already introduced new tariffs of 25% for Chinese products for a value of 34,000 million and this month will come into effect taxes on imports by another one 16 billion dollars .

In addition, the US president has threatened to introduce new tariffs of 10% on Chinese products by the end of August for 200 000 million dollars .

After the broadcast of the interview on Friday morning, the futures of the American Stock Exchange fell to minimum levels .