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.
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.