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Trump threatens ‘100% Tariff’ on all foreign and Hollywood movies filmed outside the US: ‘Candy from a baby’ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/movies@piefed.social

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Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his plans to levy tariffs as high as 100% on movies filmed outside of the United States, whether they are produced by foreign-owned film companies or Americans.

The president wrote on Truth Social that the fault of America’s supposedly “stolen” movie business lay with California’s Democratic governor, whom he frequently targets for scorn.

He added that the would be imposing a 100% tariff to stop what he called a “never ending problem”, though it was not stated when those tariffs would be put into place.

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[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

News agencies are reporting the wrong thing here.

They’re presenting as if the point of contention is whether or not this is a bad idea, but in this case that’s a meaningless question to ask.

This idea isn’t bad, it’s nonsense.

There’s literally no such thing as a tariff on movies; it’s not something that is even possible even if it were legal.

Tariffs are taxes on the import of goods; no goods are being imported when a movie is filmed in another country, so there’s nothing you can charge a tariff on.

So, this is a case of Trump demonstrating that he has no idea what tariffs even are.

Reporters aren’t reporting on that at all, though… they’re just taking it as a given that Trump’s threats are coherent and then looking for counter arguments using that as a given.

The result is that they completely miss the biggest part of this story; Trump has no idea what tariffs actually are.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Im not so sure this is exactly true as I've had to take web based training for years telling me that even sending IP over email from the US to a coworker in some other country is considered an "export." It still doesnt answer the question of how they'd assign a value to film shot in another country but I think the import/export mechanism is there.