{"id":190018,"date":"2025-09-29T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:24:11","slug":"trump-says-us-to-impose-100-tariff-on-films-made-outside-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190018\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US to impose 100% tariff on films made outside the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100 per cent tariff on all foreign-made films, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood\u2019s global business model.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The step signals Trump\u2019s 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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump announced the measure in a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming US moviemaking is losing ground to international competition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other countries, just like stealing candy from a baby,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, it was not immediately clear what legal authority Trump would use to impose a 100 per cent tariff on foreign-made films.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles. Trump had first floated the idea of a movie tariff in May but offered very little detailPhoto: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a4c14d6b-617a-41d4-b7ee-6baee28ac35c_859adcac.jpg\" title=\"The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles. Trump had first floated the idea of a movie tariff in May but offered very little detailPhoto: AP\"\/>The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles. Trump had first floated the idea of a movie tariff in May but offered very little detailPhoto: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 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 also did not immediately respond to requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100 per cent tariff on all foreign-made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,6969,110994,1506,110996,217,3,48502,110985,4637,21,19,22,20,25,110995,24,10343,3123],"class_list":["post-190018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-comcast","tag-foreign-made-films","tag-hollywood","tag-international-box-office-revenue","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-paramount-skydance","tag-protectionist-trade-policies","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-moviemaking","tag-usa","tag-warner-bros-discovery","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190018","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=190018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}