Trump Calls for 100% Tariff on Foreign Movies, With Hollywood Seeking Answers

Movies are a new focal point for the Trump administration's campaign to impose tariffs across a wide range of industries, from tech to textiles and beyond. In a Sunday night social media post, President Donald Trump said the US movie industry "is DYING a very fast death." He wrote that he's authorizing a 100% tariff "on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands." Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick quoted the president and responded, "We're on it." Trump's latest tariff call to action raised a host of questions without much direction on where the answers might lie. What criteria define how a movie is produced overseas? Would the tariffs affect only future releases or would they also apply to films already in the market, like the the wildly successful A Minecraft Movie, which was mostly shot in New Zealand? US film studios often shoot overseas with the help of incentives from countries. The tariffs almost certainly would affect foreign-made films ... Read full article.