{"id":189975,"date":"2025-09-29T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189975\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:00:08","slug":"trump-says-us-to-impose-100-tariff-on-movies-made-outside-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189975\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US to impose 100% tariff on movies made outside the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff<\/a> on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood’s global business model.<\/p>\n

The step signals Trump’s willingness to extend protectionist trade policies into cultural industries, raising uncertainty for studios that depend heavily on international box-office revenue and cross-border co-productions.<\/p>\n

Trump announced the measure in a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming U.S. movie-making is losing ground to international competition.<\/p>\n

“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing candy from a baby,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

However, it was not immediately clear what legal authority Trump would use to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-made films.<\/p>\n

White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on how the tariffs would be implemented. Warner Bros Discovery, Comcast, Paramount Skydance and Netflix<\/a> also did not immediately respond to requests.<\/p>\n

Shares of Netflix were down 1.5% in early trading.<\/p>\n

The president had first floated the idea of a movie tariff in May but offered very little details, leaving entertainment executives unsure whether it would apply to specific countries or all imports.<\/p>\n

Studio executives told Reuters earlier this year that they were “flummoxed” by how a movie tariff might be enforced, given that modern films often use production, financing, post-production and visual effects spread across multiple countries.<\/p>\n

The move has drawn skepticism from legal and trade analysts. Some argue films are a form of intellectual property and part of the global trade in services, an area where the U.S. often runs a surplus, raising questions about the legal basis for tariffs.<\/p>\n

Co-productions with foreign studios have also become more common, adding to doubts about how such films would be classified.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[12,88,206,110985],"class_list":{"0":"post-189975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-protectionist-trade-policies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}