https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/economy/trump-movie-tariffPresident Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday he will be imposing a 100% tariff "on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted.If Trump follows through with his threat, it would mark the first time he's essentially imposed a tariff on a service rather than a good.The president initially threatened a 100% tariff on foreign-produced movies in May, arguing that other countries offer tax incentives that have drawn filmmakers abroad. In his post on Monday, he singled out California, saying the state "has been particularly hard hit!"The state, meanwhile, has proposed and put in effect many tax incentives, as have other American cities.Hollywood was completely caught off guard when Trump first previewed the tariff in May. "On first blush, it's shocking and would represent a virtually complete halt of production," one industry insider told CNN at the time. "But in reality, he has no jurisdiction to do this and it’s too complex to enforce."American actors and directors generally prefer to work close to home. But "the fact is, it’s cheaper for Hollywood studios to pay for everyone to get on planes, pay for hotels, because the cost of labor, lack of rebates and the ability to make things overseas is infinitely cheaper," Jay Sures, vice chairman of United Talent Agency, told CNN in May.
Share of Netflix (NFLX) opened down 1% Monday morning following Trump's post, while other movie-related companies, including AMC (AMC) and The Walt Disney Company (DIS), opened higher.Movie ticket sales are down in the United States as the number of major releases hitting theaters has tumbled since the pandemic — and consumers have shifted their viewing habits to streaming platforms to watch at home.US box office gross topped out at just under $12 billion in 2018 before nosediving to just over $2 billion in 2020, when many theaters were shut down because of Covid. Although theaters have rebounded, the number of releases is about half of what it was in 2019. The total domestic box office gross hasn’t eclipsed $9 billion since.Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's parent company, has raked in $4 billion in global box office sales so far this year, the first studio to hit that level.More tariffs in the worksBeyond films, Trump is readying up a slew of other tariffs.As of Wednesday, the administration is set to impose a 100% tariff on branded drugs, with some exceptions; a 25% tariff on heavy trucks; a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and vanities; as well as a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture.In a separate social media post on Monday, Trump said he plans to impose a "substantial" tariff on all furniture imported into the United States.
>>1443283>>1443285>let's make it cost twice as much to watch anything non-American maybe then they'll stop seeing how the rest of the world sees us as pure evilSlow claps orange man, slow claps.
How will this work?
>>1443313It won't. Like the article says:>"But in reality, he has no jurisdiction to do this and it’s too complex to enforce."
>>1443313Hopefully it will kill Hollywood or make them produce some other movie besides the 50th entry of the marvel series.
>>1443339Naaah they won't care. Trump has no way to enforce this.
Israel is exempted
>>1443381Source?
Is he a retard?
>>1443389Senility is a common problem with people his age.
>>1443389More like his dementia is starting to kick in
>>1443340He will find a way
>Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted.Yeah no shit kek. Does he think the "foreign produced" movies all get loaded on a giant container ship and come into port? What a fucking idiot.
>>1443283This is going to kill anime.
>>1443389Is that even a question?
>>1443414Force it to happen and it fails within 3 days. Deemed unconstitutional and frivolous rantings of a madman. Hell he might bullet his brain before Berlin is surrounded. The first and last kind of America, Fail-king Donnie.
>>1443414Not really. The FCC and FTC don't have the jurisdiction to regulate the movie business. The IRS can only penalize them if they don't pay their taxes. Congress would have to create a whole new policing enforcement agency just for movies. Trump can't just executive order it into existence.
>>1443419How? Anime fans can just pirate stuff like they always have while Hollywood implodes.
>>1443384pattern recognition
>>1443283Further proof that Donald will say anything to distract from grocery prices exploding
>>1443283>Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US>one of the few sequels better than the original, Aliens, made in UK, directed by James CameronAre you just pissed off that all but two of the M41-A Pulse Rifles used in that were dismantled & destroyed, except for the only remaining firing one owned by Cameron, the other now part of the collection at the Royal Armories at Leeds, and not even you will be able to own one of those, Trump?Are you a fan of the Bond movies, Trump? They're made outside of US, even though the entire franchise is now owned by Amazon.Despite The Final Reckoning, I hear there'll be more Mission: Impossible movies made. OT-VIII Tom Cruise Control will regard you as an SP who has committed a High Crime: because he likes to do his own stunts in other parts of the world.Movies with settings outside US, as they're based on novels which have characters outside of US.You haven't thought this one through have you, Trumpo?
>>1443414thats not how the real world works JD. trump isnt an omnipotent emperor
why is trump a literal hardcore stalinist now, I was told he was aiming for completely unfettered laissez faire capitalism
Even though he later showed signs of senility, at least a previous president was all for free trade.The 1980s was the Golden Era for a Republican USA. Do you know who was president then, Trump? You're no Reagan
>>1443695Communism for the 1%, capitalism for everyone else.
>>1443338>>1443432>>1443435>He has no jurisdictionHave you been living under a rock? He's been doing whatever he damn well pleases with his emergency powers and the courts are just rolling over and taking it.
>>1443713To be fair, I think most courts are saying his shit is illegal, it’s just another court or the supreme court itself says “lol nuh uh.”Or better yet, he just keeps doing it anyway without consequence.
>>1443710Trump is for Free Trade… As long as Trump gets to dictate everything and force you to buy domestically.
>>1443716>b-but daddy donny, we don’t make these things, they can’t be produced domestically Well then I guess you’re not buying them, huh? Free trade, baby!
>>1443713Is he personally going to monitor the travel habits of movie studios? I don't think he is.
>>1443715Supreme court absolutely needs to be cleaned the fuck up. Roberts and Thomas need to go to jail for life; only way to demonstrate their level of corruption should not and will never again be allowed.
>>1443715>I think most courts are saying his shit is illegal,Yes but they will just keep let him do it. I wish people understood that who will pay for the tariffs are americans and no one else if you order something online you will have to pay surprise custom fees, in stores the tariffs will be passed onto consumers by companies rising their prices.
>>1443747well they've been brainwashed too hard to know they're being fucked to death by their side. americans are currently living in a mass delusion thanks to mass media and a general glut of culture from the very start, and perhaps that's what should've been expected from such an experiment
>>1443440if it kills crunchyroll that's a benefit to the industry.the next administration will repeal it and we'll have less sjw culture warriors fucking with the hobby.
>>1443747I wish so too. This is why slashing taxes on billionaires sucks; the rest of us have to shoulder the burden through taking tariffs up the ass. We're not even using the fucking income to reduce the deficit (Donald and Joe will be long dead by the time the bill comes due), and instead are blowing it on signing bonuses for high-school dropouts enlisting with ice.
>>1443814>instead are blowing it on signing bonuses for high-school dropouts enlisting with ice.Or bailing out another country basically purely because Trump is friends with its president. A country that literally directly stole all our jobs in the soybean industry no less.
>>1443816>America is helping out the first pro-America president Argentina has had in a generation SHOCKING!
>>1443828I don't give a shit how friendly he is to Musk and Trump; not only is he in a shitshow partially of his own making the US is not obligated to spend 20 billion bailing him out of, but he's also literally stolen jobs from us via replacing our role in soybean exports to China.
>>1443816Honestly the only reason Milei is a maga is he hates the left. I'm not a Milei fan, but at least he's ideologically consistent: when he slashed public spending he used it to reduce the deficit and stabilize the currency (we'll sidestep the argument over whether he made the peso *too* strong). Donald made the tax code more complicated, and is distorting the economy by incentivizing investment in industries we're not efficient at via tariffs. Donald commits similar economic sins as the Peronists that Milei is fighting... and surprise surprise, just like with the Peronists, inflation is spiking and the economy is stagnating.
>>1443828His bestie bought soybeans from China instead of the US.
>>1443283its not a service you dumb fucking mongoloidthey are making a product to sell
