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\n\tDays before a government shutdown deadline, Donald Trump is raising the vague, if consequential, specter of a \u201c100%\u201d tariff aimed at Hollywood\u2019s feature film development pipeline.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOur movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries,\u201d the President wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding a few digs at California Gov. Gavin Newsom before getting to the point: \u201cI will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIf this sounds familiar, it was just months ago in May that Trump issued what sounded like a bombshell at the time: All movies that would be \u201cmade\u201d outside the country would be subject to a tariff. At the time, viewed in the context of the President\u2019s roll out of his tariffs on dozens of countries, it felt like an ominous move that would throw co-financing, co-production and development in to disarray.<\/p>\n
\n\tSince that time, more context about what prompted the original tariffs missive \u2014 a Mar-a-Lago meeting with his Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight and his business partner Steven Paul, for one \u2014 has added more nuance to the narrative. Voight and Paul, for example, formally unveiled what they described as a Trump-friendly blueprint to the President as of May 5. That plan mentioned \u201cfederal tax incentives, significant changes to several tax codes, the establishment of co-production treaties with foreign countries, and infrastructure subsidies for theater owners, film and television production companies, and post-production companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNotably the only mention of tariffs in Trump\u2019s own Hollywood advisor\u2019s plan was a line that read, \u201cThe proposal also includes a focus on job training, and tariffs in certain limited circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMore to come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Days before a government shutdown deadline, Donald Trump is raising the vague, if consequential, specter of a \u201c100%\u201d tariff aimed at Hollywood\u2019s feature film development pipeline. \u201cOur movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries,\u201d the President wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding a few digs at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[964,283,14953,2971,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-24662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donald","9":"tag-movie","10":"tag-saberrattling","11":"tag-tariff","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}