"In May, President Trump announced a plan to "fix" Hollywood and the movie industry, declaring tariffs on all movies made outside the United States. Tariffs are nothing new from Trump, as they've been his go-to move to bolster American trade since the beginning of his second administration. But previous tariffs have focused on material goods, from vehicles to steel to kitchen cabinets. Efficacy aside, that's what tariffs are theoretically for: to incentivize American production."
"Movies, on the other hand, aren't made in factories. They are vast creative projects resulting from hundreds, if not thousands, of people working together, and they aren't just "made" in one place by one country. Nothing happened after Trump's May announcement, leading to the assumption that he'd realized how difficult it would be to enforce such sanctions, or simply forgot. But Trump just doubled down on this cryptic plan, even though no one seems to know how it would work."
A plan proposes a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States, treating films like tradable goods. Tariffs have been used previously on vehicles, steel, and cabinets to incentivize domestic production. Films, however, are complex creative projects involving hundreds or thousands of people and frequently span multiple countries. Defining where a film is "made" is ambiguous for globe-hopping productions and for international films with American distributors. No immediate enforcement followed the initial proposal, and questions remain about how a tariff would be applied and whether it could be effectively enforced.
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