Can Donald Trump really put a tariff on films?

After slamming everything from covering to avocados with tariffs, present President Donald Trump has taken purpose astatine films. "The Movie Industry successful America is DYING a precise accelerated death," Trump proclaimed connected Truth Social past week, portion floating a 100 percent tariff connected movies "produced successful Foreign Lands."

The quality stirred up disorder crossed Hollywood, arsenic it would seemingly use to a wide scope of films, possibly adjacent US films with scenes changeable abroad. Though Trump has already begun to reel his archetypal connection backmost in, as helium told CNBC that he's "not looking to wounded the industry," it doesn't look similar he's fixed up connected the thought completely. But similar galore of Trump's plans, he's relying connected statesmanlike powers that are stretched to a breaking point.

"A car has a worth erstwhile it arrives astatine a US larboard that they tin slap a tariff on," says Mark Jones, a prof of governmental subject astatine Rice University. "But due to the fact that of the mode the movie manufacture works, it'd beryllium overmuch tougher to find what proportionality of the movie you would really use a tariff to."

Trump's tariff program appears to person spun retired of a gathering with histrion Jon Voight, a fervent Trump protagonist who has been appointed a "special ambassado …

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