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How exactly the government would collect a tariff on movies wasn’t clear.
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Jeff Sommer
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Once you get started on tariffs, it’s hard to know where to stop. Cars, food, shoes, steel, aluminum, pharmaceuticals and myriad other products are included on the Trump administration’s list. Why not add movies?
President Donald Trump did just that May 4, proposing to start taxing foreign-made movies 100 per cent. He said movie tariffs were needed to stop Hollywood from dying a “very fast death”.
