Name: Trump orders 100% tariffs on foreign films
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Description: U.S. President Donald Trump announces he’s authorizing new, 100 percent tariffs on foreign films. Puck News’ Eriq Gardner talks to Becky Anderson about the vague and problematic nature of the tariff order.

U.S. President Donald Trump announces he’s authorizing new, 100 percent tariffs on foreign films. Puck News’ Eriq Gardner talks to Becky Anderson about the vague and problematic nature of the tariff order.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to impose 100 percent tariffs on foreign films shown in the United States. In a statement on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump asserted that Hollywood has been severely impacted by film productions undertaken outside the U.S., describing the situation as a national security threat. He explained that by imposing tariffs on films not made within the U.S., the country could protect its movie industry from foreign influence and financial support from governments abroad.

Eric Gardner, a founding partner and correspondent for Puck News, discussed the potential implications of the proposed tariffs. He highlighted the complexity of implementing such tariffs due to the global and interconnected nature of film production. Gardner questioned how tariffs could be applied, given that movies typically fall under services rather than goods. Unlike goods, films are intangible and are distributed as intellectual property rather than being shipped physically into the country. Gardner also raised questions about the criteria that would define a film as foreign, such as whether it concerns funding sources or filming locations.

The lack of clarity in Trump's statement has left many within Hollywood uncertain about the implications of these tariffs. Gardner noted the present confusion and the need for more details regarding the execution of this order, as questions remain unanswered about how the classification of foreign films would occur and how tariffs would be imposed.



Trump orders 100% tariffs on foreign films

world reacting to a new announcement by the US president ordering a 100 percent tariff on foreign films shown in the United States. In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said Hollywood is being devastated by productions filmed outside the US and is lightening that to a national security threat. Other nations, a lot of them, have stolen our movie industry and I'm saying if they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States, then we should have a tariff on movies that come in. And not only that, governments are actually giving big money. I mean, they're supporting them financially. So that's sort of a threat to our country in a sense. Eric Gardner is a founding partner and correspondent for Park News, joins us now. I often hear you on one of your, one of the podcasts on what is a really good and busy slate. Congratulations on that. Eric, good to have you. First up is a very simple question. Does this proposal even make sense when film production is so global and so sort of intertwined? And films ultimately, correct me if I'm wrong, are not goods. I think they fall under the sort of, you know, the pillar of services, right, which is generally not what tariffs are all about. So explain what's going on here. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to explain what's going on. I'm not sure whether Trump himself knows what's going on. I mean, you know, when we're talking about tariffs, you're usually talking about goods that are shipped into the country and at the point of entry, that's when the taxes are put on. But when you talk about movies, there's no such thing as them being shipped into the country. You know, it's intellectual property, they get screened everywhere. So exactly how is the tariff going to be imposed? Is it going to be on movie tickets? Is it going to be on producers paying the fees? That's just one of the problems. There's also the question of what is a movie that's produced overseas? Are we talking about where the funding is coming from? Is it about, you know, where is it shot? What happens if it's shot in the United States? But there's some post-production, some special effects over in Asia. Does that, you know, qualify as a foreign film? So there are all these questions. Right now I'm looking at this executive order, the truth social post in it. It's very vague. I think there are a lot of people in Hollywood very confused right now.

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