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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump imposing 100% tariffs on foreign films
We truly have an idiot in the White House.
All he knows is his hatred and his rage.
Trump is imposing 100% tariff on foreign made films.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674052550/
California has the 4th largest economy in the world.
Some films like James Bond and Mission Impossible have foreign locales.
Sometimes Toronto or Montreal is used for NYC.

Renew Deal
(84,507 posts)Are they going to take the film off the boat at a port of entry?
intheflow
(29,751 posts)How will he tax individual movies that streaming services offer?
Ilsa
(63,343 posts)Foreign company production? Foreign scene location? Language other than English?
Dave Bowman
(5,917 posts)
Tetrachloride
(9,021 posts)Tetrachloride
(9,021 posts)617Blue
(2,057 posts)intheflow
(29,751 posts)So many PBS programs come from the BBC and Liongate, this is a move to kill PBS by making much of their content too expensive.
Also, foreign locales doesn't make a film foreign. Where the production company is headquartered is what makes a film foreign or not.
no_hypocrisy
(53,214 posts)bmichaelh
(968 posts)As far as I know, Trump did not make any comments when the French film The Player won Best Picture
But when the South Korean film Parasite won, he was angry.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/politics/trump-south-korea-best-picture-parasite
tetedur
(1,354 posts)And goodbye Amazon Prime. I'm not ordering much these days anyway.
BeyondGeography
(40,679 posts)Silent Type
(11,266 posts)have long railed against trade deals that they thought sent jobs to other countries.
Personally, I think worldwide trade is important for the planet, but a lot of GOPers don't and traditionally a lot of Democrats have felt the same. Heck, interanl criticism of Obama/Clinton trade policy was one reason we lost 2016 to trump.
krawhitham
(5,013 posts)The MCU has recently moved most if not all filming from Georgia to London
Ocelot II
(127,460 posts)Movies made by foreign production companies? Movies made by US companies filmed outside the US? What if they're made by a foreign company but filmed inside the US? What if it's streamed from a foreign location? Is that the same as importing? Trump probably thinks of movies as physical objects as they once were, long strips of film on big reels that are put in boxes and shipped to theaters. But now they are, or can be, incorporeal electronic entities that can be transmitted to and from anywhere without any physical object crossing a border. If streaming from a location outside the US is considering importing, does that make it a service rather than a product, and is he now tariffing services?