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Trump doubles down on film tariffs that experts call ‘impossible’
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President Trump caught even Hollywood allies off guard by pushing his foreign film tariff plan back into the limelight, as both allies and critics cast their doubts on its feasability.
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President Donald Trump says he will slap a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States — a vague directive aimed at protecting a business that America…
President Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on 'any and all movies that are made outside of the United States,' echoing an idea he floated earlier this year.
President Donald Trump said today he would impose a 100% tariff on all films produced overseas that are then sent into the U.S., repeating a threat made in May that would upend Hollywood’s global business model.
The President has reiterated a threat he first made back in May, and once again, without any details as to how such a threat could be acted upon in the first place.
Claiming that movie production “has been stolen’’ from Hollywood and the U.S., Trump posted said he would be imposed the 100% tariff on “any and all movies” made outside of the U.S.
Days before a government shutdown deadline, Donald Trump is raising the vague, if consequential, specter of a his "100%" tariff aimed at Hollywood's feature film development pipeline.
So far, there's no word about when or how this move will be enacted, but it would be the first time President Trump threatened to place a tariff on a service as opposed to a raw good.
George Clooney says President Trump is “not wrong” that movie productions are exiting Hollywood, but that the solution to luring them back lies in a federal tax rebate, not a tariff on foreign-made films. “Look, he’s not wrong about the idea that businesses have left Los Angeles.
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