{"id":190281,"date":"2025-09-29T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190281\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:44:14","slug":"trump-threatens-100-movie-tariffs-again-on-overseas-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190281\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens 100% Movie Tariffs Again On Overseas Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLetting loose with a barrage of social media postings Monday morning on subjects ranging from furniture production in North Carolina to the NFL, Donald Trump<\/a> is back to attacking Gavin Newsom<\/a> and promising big tariffs on overseas movies \u2014 really big tariffs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing \u2018candy from a baby.\u2019 California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit,\u201d Trump wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform. \u201cTherefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIf you are experiencing d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu reading those lines, yes that is almost exactly what the former Apprentice host said back in May.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tCalling\u00a0runaway production<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cnational security threat,\u201d Trump\u2019s threats of a \u201c100% tariff\u201d earlier this year came after reports that one of his \u201cspecial ambassadors\u201d to\u00a0Hollywood<\/a>, Jon Voight, was a\u00a0devising a plan to save the entertainment industry<\/a>. That plan, as of today, has yet to bear fruit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Motion Picture Association today had no comment on Trump\u2019s latest post. A White House spokesperson also did not immediately respond to a request to elaborate on the president\u2019s latest post.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Predicts Trump Will \u201cTry To Sue\u201d ABC After Rant About Talk Show Return: \u201cHe Does Know Bad Ratings\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Trump posted his threat in May, industry representatives grappled with how to respond. Within 24 hours, the White House cautioned that the tariffs would be under review by the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative. Trump himself said he would host a gathering of Hollywood reps, but that hasn\u2019t happened yet. \u201cI\u2019m not looking to hurt the industry,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout a week later, after tariff talk died down, the studios, unions, Voight and Sylvester Stallone, another of the president\u2019s special ambassadors, penned a letter to Trump<\/a> outlining proposals for expanded production incentives. The letter did not mention tariffs. There have been hopes ever since that movie tariffs would be on the back burner.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong studios, there also have been concerns that Trump would try to impose restrictions on any filming overseas, as generous incentives in the UK, Canada and Australia long have lured Hollywood studio tentpole production. Major Hollywood studios have come to depend on those overseas incentives as a way to try to reduce production costs.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Trump Approves TikTok Deal Separating U.S. Operations From China HQ; Oracle Among Backers Of New Joint Venture<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the MPA, the industry generated a positive balance of trade in every major market in the world, with exports 3.1 times that of imports. The industry produced $22.6 billion in exports and $15.3 billion in trade surplus.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere also is the question of how tariffs would work on services, not actual goods. Trump\u2019s tariff authority overall is already facing a court challenge, with the Supreme Court reviewing it and hearing oral arguments in November. Movies actually are listed as an exception <\/a>to presidential authority under the International Emergency Powers Act, which gives the president authority to address threats to national security and the economy.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s post also follows his attacks on Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and other late-night hosts<\/a>. ABC pulled Kimmel\u2019s show<\/a> following warnings from the president\u2019s FCC chairman,<\/a> Brendan Carr, and announcements from major station groups that they would stop airing the late-night host\u2019s show<\/a>. But Disney returned Kimmel to the air last week<\/a>, with Nexstar and Sinclair following<\/a> several days later. Trump blasted Kimmel\u2019s return, and threatened<\/a> the network again.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Brendan Carr\u2019s Threats On Networks May Be \u201cJawboning\u201d, And Courts Don\u2019t Like It, Legal Experts Say<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Trump made his Hollywood tariff threat back in May, Kimmel quipped, \u201cNext year, The White Lotus is gonna be set at a Hampton Inn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letting loose with a barrage of social media postings Monday morning on subjects ranging from furniture production in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,5109,2013,3,111091,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-190281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-electionline","11":"tag-gavin-newsom","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-runaway-production","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190281","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=190281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}