Trump tariffs: US president says foreign movies may be hit with 100% levies
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The president blamed foreign-made movies for the American film industry's "very fast death".
  • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Ok? This is current year, I can just use a VPN to stream foreign movies.

    I am so tired of all the BS this regime keeps throwing at everything.

  • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Which will result in retaliation against US movies, thus further undermining the US’s unparalleled soft power.

    This man is doing literally everything Putin could ever want.

  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The US being by far the biggest exporter of movies, the only way this makes sense is that Trump is not seeing enough ass-kissing (and bribes campaign donations) from the US movie industry, so he’s actively trying to damage them.

    Claim foreign movies are a threat, wait for other countries to retaliate against US movies, sit back and watch bribes sales of $TRUMP grow as the major studios seek his political favor.

    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      I mean at least this is one of the situations where at its base a tariff makes sense in an industry protectionist way. Its not like putting insane tariffs on goods we dont even manufacture here whatsoever, which is just stupid.

      That said, a 100% tariff is just mind bogglingly stupid dick-swinging in this already hostile trade environment. It would make more sense if it was like 5%. Not something that will make the world boycott our media

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I think this is good. It will help local (outside the US) artistic industries space to flourish without being threatened by Hollywood.

    Movies all over the world face inmence pressure form competing from Hollywood, buy without that pressure, they could focus on their local strengths instead.

    Yeah USians are probably fucked though, but it’s kinda bad to feel bad for the facists and their enablers.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      i don’t really see how… it’ll make movies from outside the US more expensive inside the US, but it doesn’t effect the price of US movies elsewhere

      … without retaliation from many other countries of course, but idk if that’ll happen really: europe has kinda gone with retaliating in other areas: specific to applying pressure rather than broad

        • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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          4 months ago

          It’s a nice thought, but the difference is that if you grow 1 tonne of rice you only need to find a buyer for 1 tonne of rice. If you’ve invested in a film then you need that film to play in as many markets as possible to stand any chance of recouping that investment.

  • Pnut@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I was under the impression that they film a great deal of movies in Canada because it costs far less than filming anywhere else. We also have places that look very modern while maintaining very gothic cities and all of the land in between that could be filmed to look like many places abroad. So he’s costing the film industry the savings that they have gotten used to by filming in Canada. Art of the deal.

  • Dzso@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    As a dual US and EU citizen, good!* European movies are better than that Hollywood shit anyway.

    *for the record, neither this nor anything else Trump is doing is actually good.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Apart from the point that this would be illegal (he won’t know or care, but it is), imagine other countries responding in kind? At least our country imports more media from the US than we produce on our own. And the return tarrifs costs and losses caused by that would also hit primarily US companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, AplleTV…

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Nah, I imagine whatever demon got ownership of Donny would win the jackpot. Trump isn’t the first of his kind, he’s barely special at all when lined up next to other self-indulgent, hate-filled dictators who had amassed power throughout human history. Hell would have plenty of experience with his kind, and thus would know exactly what to do with Donny.

          Each of those former-rulers had legions of people who absolutely detested them. There’d probably be a celebration when a massive shitbag like that finally passes the gates of Hell. A creative demon would probably recognize and exploit that energy somehow, maybe by offering people a break from being tortured, and instead getting a chance to torture such an individual for a set amount of time. (Probably charging the people for the opportunity, too, since I assume Hell would be capitalist. But I disgress.) Point is, a demon would have a lot of options with a ward like Donny.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      After destroying the USs reputation (even further), but before collecting any meaningful value/revenue.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Another “Trump said” that should be ignored.

    How would this even work? Tariffs function by holding the physical items in customs, until the tax is paid. But a licensing deal on a digital good, that can be transfered undetected over the internet, is impossible to teriff. You could tax it other ways, but 100% of what. The distribution license? The copyright?

    I guarantee he hasn’t thought about any of this, and as such this mindless utterance a can be safely ignored.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      The more logical choice would be to tax the distribution license sold by non American entities.

      The thing that makes this unenforceable is that what he means is that he wants to tax movies not filmed fully in the US even if they are American movies.

      • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Sure I’ll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn’t really matter to my point.
        My point is that the is another example of him saying something stupid, that shouldn’t get any media coverage.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          Point taken, but this isn’t just a “covfefe moment” though. This is newsworthy because Trump just obliterated half of all money in Hollywood. Gone, reduced to atoms.

          Culture is one of the main things that the US exports across the world, and this puts a big old smoking hole in our feet in that regard. This will have tangible repercussions.

        • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          Sure I’ll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn’t really matter to my point.

          This made me chuckle.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: “Is it where the money comes from? The script, the director, the talent, where it was shot?”

    These are the important questions to asking. I imagine there won’t be strict definitions of “US made” films instead it will be a “vibes” based criteria used to punish people who go against the Trump Administration’s policies.

    • reptar@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s another control gate on the economy that he can manipulate. He is basically finding ways to insert himself in his amounts of commerce. It’s a trump tax via bribes