Trump imposing 100% tariffs on foreign films

[bmichaelh]

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]

1. Is that even enforceable?

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

[intheflow]

11. What about streaming services?

How will he tax individual movies that streaming services offer?

[Ilsa]

2. How is he defining "foreign film?"

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

[Dave Bowman]

3. He keeps getting crazier each day.

[Tetrachloride]

4. a tax on electrons

[Tetrachloride]

5. Epstein

[617Blue]

6. Look at me look at me look at me I'm saying things...zzzzzz

[intheflow]

7. This is for PBS.

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]

8. Only Americans can win the Oscars?

[bmichaelh]

12. Trump was angry when Parasite won Best Picture

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]

9. If this makes Netflix more expensive, goodbye Netflix.

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

[BeyondGeography]

10. And here I was thinking he was a big Fellini fan

[Silent Type]

13. trump's stated goal is to bring jobs back to America. A tariff will definitely help if one is of that mindset. Democrats

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]

14. He did not say "foreign made films", he said "movies that are made outside of the US". This is aimed at Disney

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

[Ocelot II]

15. What does that even mean?

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?