Overview
- In an Oval Office interview with the New York Post’s California Post, the president said he intends to impose tariffs on movies made outside the United States and to create low-interest bonds for the industry.
- The White House has not provided details on how a bond program would work or how film tariffs would be implemented.
- Court challenges to presidential tariff authority are pending, with a Supreme Court decision expected and questions raised over movies’ treatment under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and how tariffs would apply to services.
- Studios and industry representatives have been steering the policy debate toward expanded federal production incentives, and the Motion Picture Association declined to comment.
- Trump has previously floated 100% tariffs on foreign-made films as he presses to shift work back to Los Angeles, even as generous incentives in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia continue to draw productions overseas.