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Trump Has “No Authority” To Impose 100% Movie Tariffs, Gavin Newsom Says; Studios Scrambling To Find Out What POTUS Wants
Typically Trump, the details of POTUS' 100% tariffs on movies made overseas are vague but what is already clear is that the Governor of California isn't playing a supporting role
In fact, as Gavin Newsom pushes for a more than doubling of the state’s film and TV tax incentives to $750 million, Trump’s newest tariff missive sets up a showdown between the Governor and the President over who truly wants to save the home of Hollywood. Contacted by Deadline, Newsom’s office had no comment tonight on Trump’s social media declaration “authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” Even with Newsom slagged as a “grossly incompetent governor” that let Hollywood be “stolen” later Sunday by Trump on the South Lawn of the White House, the Governor’s team are taking a wait and see approach until more specifics are made available of the president’s desire for “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” One theory circulating in DC and LA circles tonight is that any tariffs would be on any financial incentives films and possibly shows received from the likes of Canadian provinces, the UK, Australia, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Germany, Mexico and others.
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