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bmichaelh

(968 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:54 AM Yesterday

Trump 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.

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Trump imposing 100% tariffs on foreign films (Original Post) bmichaelh Yesterday OP
Is that even enforceable? Renew Deal Yesterday #1
What about streaming services? intheflow Yesterday #11
How is he defining "foreign film?" Ilsa Yesterday #2
He keeps getting crazier each day. Dave Bowman Yesterday #3
a tax on electrons Tetrachloride Yesterday #4
Epstein Tetrachloride Yesterday #5
Look at me look at me look at me I'm saying things...zzzzzz 617Blue Yesterday #6
This is for PBS. intheflow Yesterday #7
Only Americans can win the Oscars? no_hypocrisy Yesterday #8
Trump was angry when Parasite won Best Picture bmichaelh Yesterday #12
If this makes Netflix more expensive, goodbye Netflix. tetedur Yesterday #9
And here I was thinking he was a big Fellini fan BeyondGeography Yesterday #10
trump's stated goal is to bring jobs back to America. A tariff will definitely help if one is of that mindset. Democrats Silent Type Yesterday #13
He did not say "foreign made films", he said "movies that are made outside of the US". This is aimed at Disney krawhitham 23 hrs ago #14
What does that even mean? Ocelot II 23 hrs ago #15

Renew Deal

(84,507 posts)
1. Is that even enforceable?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:58 AM
Yesterday

Are they going to take the film off the boat at a port of entry?

intheflow

(29,751 posts)
11. What about streaming services?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:38 AM
Yesterday

How will he tax individual movies that streaming services offer?

Ilsa

(63,343 posts)
2. How is he defining "foreign film?"
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:58 AM
Yesterday

Foreign company production? Foreign scene location? Language other than English?

intheflow

(29,751 posts)
7. This is for PBS.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:14 AM
Yesterday

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.

bmichaelh

(968 posts)
12. Trump was angry when Parasite won Best Picture
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:40 AM
Yesterday

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)
9. If this makes Netflix more expensive, goodbye Netflix.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:30 AM
Yesterday

And goodbye Amazon Prime. I'm not ordering much these days anyway.

Silent Type

(11,266 posts)
13. trump's stated goal is to bring jobs back to America. A tariff will definitely help if one is of that mindset. Democrats
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:48 AM
Yesterday

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)
14. He did not say "foreign made films", he said "movies that are made outside of the US". This is aimed at Disney
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:52 AM
23 hrs ago

The MCU has recently moved most if not all filming from Georgia to London

Ocelot II

(127,460 posts)
15. What does that even mean?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:56 AM
23 hrs ago

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?

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