The idiot can't keep his mouth shut, and just dumps whatever 1/4-baked idea out from his brain onto Truth Social. Stock value of various film industry firms immediately dropped a few percentage points, and I seem to think there is already talk from his administration on walking back on that tariff.
If he really wants to follow through with it, I'm sure he can write up yet another Congress-bypassing executive order to demand producers to specify the amount of "foreign content" in each film, and tax the film accordingly. So the lead actor isn't American? X% of the film is no longer American and subjected to tariffs! Y mins of the film was filmed in Italy? Another Z% of the film is no longer American.
The rule set would then be so complicated that nobody understands it, and they'll announce a 90-day pause on the foreign content film tariff.
Gosh I wish I am just making all of this BS up. Unfortunately, I think even my BS here has more logic and is better thought out than his original idea.
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Originally Posted by Manic!
How is he going to enforce a 100% tariff on films. Films are shot in multiple locations and work is done all over the place. If a VFX house in Canada does some work how is that going to be tariffed on a film shot in the US. What about foreign films? How about anime? If an American uses a streaming service to watch some anime from Japan is the person going to have to pay a tariff? This guy is an idiot.
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