President Donald Trump has indicated that he's willing to hit every product imported from China with tariffs and again criticized the Federal Reserve, as well as some of the nation's biggest trading partners.

The comments sent U.S. markets sliding early Friday, but they later moved higher.

In a taped interview with the business channel CNBC, Trump said "I'm willing to go to 500," referring roughly to the $505.5 billion US in goods imported last year from China.

The administration to date has slapped tariffs on $34 billion US of Chinese goods in a trade dispute over what it calls the nation's predatory practices...

This was excerpted from the 20 July 2018 edition of CBC News.