• jonne@infosec.pub
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    Well, sure, you can write a law and mandate that X amount of productions are local, but that would mean going through Congress and writing that law. Tariffs are something the President can institute on an emergency basis (which he’s already abusing, obviously, but Congress isn’t interested in standing up to him). Tarrifs are collected at the border when you’re importing a good, which isn’t really something that works with streaming a movie, especially if the film is actually edited and finished in the US. The only thing you’re actually importing is raw footage if you’ve been shooting the movie abroad, and it’s hard to put a value on that.

    To me it looks like this EO hasn’t been anywhere near a lawyer.

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      It’s not hard to put a value on footage. In fact that is literally how the global film production system works currently, with subsidies and tax credits having to be credited to a verified and accounted dollar spend value in that jurisdiction. Trump will just be adding an extra tax on any film entering the US with a certified origin of anywhere else. It’s insane but it is also practicable. Ish.