Trump says movies produced outside the U.S. are a national security threat. So he’s imposing a 100% tariff on all movies that are “produced in foreign lands.”

On its face, this is about getting more movies produced in the U.S., but obviously this is also a mechanism you'd use to stop foreign sources of information from getting into your country.

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It's impossible to overstate how critical movies were to establishing U.S. hegemony in the 20th century.

“It is unclear how such a tariff would work because movies aren’t physical goods that move through ports like most items subject to tariffs. [Trump] would need to determine how to value a movie in order to apply the tariffs, as well as what the threshold would be to classify it as an import.”