With Reuters having published the part of its exclusive Trump interview in which the president discusses North Korea and Russia, and in which he said that it is “very possible” the crisis with North Korea can’t be resolved in a peaceful way, moments ago Reuters published highlights from the remainder of Trump’s interview, which discloses more from Trump’s trade agenda.

Here are the Reuters headlines:

• TRUMP SAYS HE HOPES THERE WON’T BE A TRADE WAR WITH CHINA, BUT “IF THERE IS, THERE IS.”
• TRUMP SAYS U.S. IS CONSIDERING “BIG DAMAGES” IN PROBE OVER ALLEGED CHINA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT
• TRUMP SAYS HE MAY TERMINATE NAFTA AGREEMENT, A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD BE UNHAPPY IF HE DID: RTRS

Mexico’s peso pared some of today’s gains on the news Trump “may” terminate Nafta agreement, with the MXN falling 0.5% to 18.6833/USD vs session high 18.58, although the bullet hardly says something we haven’t known already.

And touching on China’s threat to sell Treasurys if there is a trade war, Trump said:

• TRUMP SAYS ANY CHANGE IN CHINA’S PURCHASES OF U.S. TREASURIES WOULD NOT HURT U.S. ECONOMY, SAYS EVERYBODY WANTS TO BUY TREASURIES

Some more details from the full interview:

In an interview with Reuters, Trump and his economic adviser Gary Cohn said China had forced U.S. companies to transfer their intellectual property to China as a cost of doing business there. The United States has started a trade investigation into the issue, and Cohn said the United States Trade Representative would be making recommendations about it soon.

“We have a very big intellectual property potential fine going, which is going to come out soon,” Trump said in the interview.

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