Exit Music (For a [Foreign] Movie)

Donald Trump is pointing at issues and threatening to tariff them, once more.

And whereas “tariffing overseas movies” might have figured barely decrease on individuals’s predicted hit record, it in all probability shouldn’t have been.

Or to place it one other manner: International international locations present tax incentivies to persuade Hollywood to make movies of their nation quite than within the US.

Does that sound like one thing the Donald would instincitively like?

Over on Bluesky, Simon Lester, has additionally reminded everybody that the concept of tariffing movies isn’t new: Again in 2007, when movies have been nonetheless (largely) transported on bodily movie reel, videotapes or DVDs, the Movie & Tv Motion Committee (FTAC) filed a Part 301 petition searching for an investigation into the legality of overseas authorities movie and TV subsidies designed to draw American productions, with a concentrate on Canada.

Admittedly, tariffing internet knowledge is barely extra sophisticated than tariffing videotapes, so there could also be some logistical points related to Trump’s 100% tariff risk.

However assuming he simply may do one thing, I believe it’s value excited about what that would really appear to be.

Off the highest of my head (and never accounting for whether or not any of those can be potential/authorized below US legislation), listed below are issues he may do which may have an analogous affect:

• Tariff related items. Assuming the primary purpose is definitely to cease overseas international locations from offering tax incentives and grants, he may simply determined to use a load of latest tariffs on vaguely related merchandise (I dunno, stage curtains) till stated international locations cease granting the tax incentives and grants.

• Tax overseas content material. Look, this could be a whole mess however you might concenivably apply 100% tax to studios that produce >XX% of content material exterior of the US. Alternatively, you might apply 100% tax to the studio income linked to overseas manufacturing.

• Ban overseas movies. Does what it says on the tin.

• Native content material requirement. Related vibe to among the above, however you might require that for a movie to be positioned available on the market within the US a sure proportion of its manufacturing/filming/and many others be carried out within the US.

• Cultural quotas. Time to get a bit extra European. He may require that each one cinemas, television stations, streamers, and many others, present American-produced movies and exhibits XX% of the time.

• Trump display time. With an enormous hat tip to David Allen Inexperienced on Bluesky, this made me chuckle:

  

Or not one of the above.

In essence, what I’m saying is that folks ought to deal with this severely and keep away from the temptation to say “You possibly can’t tariff a movie, you IDIOT” as a result of … he may simply do this.

All collectively now …

The place are movies from?

Staying on the subject of tariffing movies, if the US have been to tariff overseas movies, and significantly if it have been to use completely different tariffs to movies from completely different international locations (e.g., France 100%, Japan 50%, and many others.), we would want to suppose severely concerning the origin of a movie.

Lengthy-term readers of MFN will know that I by no means miss an alternative to write down about guidelines of origin. In the present day is not any completely different.

Now, after we focus on origin it’s often in relation to items. Beneath each non-preferential (exterior of a free commerce settlement) and preferential (lined by a free commerce settlement) regimes, there are guidelines dictating the final word origin of an imported product. Getting this proper will be vital, significantly if it’s the distinction between a, for instance, 10 per cent tariff and a 145 per cent tariff.

However whereas nobody ever actually talks about it, realizing the place a service is imported from may also be vital. For instance, by way of a rustic’s free commerce agreements, some providers suppliers from FTA international locations may have the ability to bid for sure authorities contracts whereas different providers suppliers from non-FTA international locations may not.

Anyhow, the TL;DR is that that is an space the place vibes run free.

From a US perspective, it’s value taking a look at how the origin of different providers has been decided, significantly within the context of procurement.

Particularly, this Observe Legislation briefing highlights the US’s concentrate on the place a overseas vendor or contracter is both headquartered or established.

The briefing additionally gives this Cloud Computing case examine:

Anyway, my guess if the movie tariff is ever applied is that there’s both some particular guidelines targeted on labour hours or the like within the US vs exterior the US or it simply will get very vebsey in a short time.

Greatest,

Sam

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Donald Trump is pointing at issues and threatening to tariff them, once more.

And whereas “tariffing overseas movies” might have figured barely decrease on individuals’s predicted hit record, it in all probability shouldn’t have been.

Or to place it one other manner: International international locations present tax incentivies to persuade Hollywood to make movies of their nation quite than within the US.

Does that sound like one thing the Donald would instincitively like?

Over on Bluesky, Simon Lester, has additionally reminded everybody that the concept of tariffing movies isn’t new: Again in 2007, when movies have been nonetheless (largely) transported on bodily movie reel, videotapes or DVDs, the Movie & Tv Motion Committee (FTAC) filed a Part 301 petition searching for an investigation into the legality of overseas authorities movie and TV subsidies designed to draw American productions, with a concentrate on Canada.

Admittedly, tariffing internet knowledge is barely extra sophisticated than tariffing videotapes, so there could also be some logistical points related to Trump’s 100% tariff risk.

However assuming he simply may do one thing, I believe it’s value excited about what that would really appear to be.

Off the highest of my head (and never accounting for whether or not any of those can be potential/authorized below US legislation), listed below are issues he may do which may have an analogous affect:

• Tariff related items. Assuming the primary purpose is definitely to cease overseas international locations from offering tax incentives and grants, he may simply determined to use a load of latest tariffs on vaguely related merchandise (I dunno, stage curtains) till stated international locations cease granting the tax incentives and grants.

• Tax overseas content material. Look, this could be a whole mess however you might concenivably apply 100% tax to studios that produce >XX% of content material exterior of the US. Alternatively, you might apply 100% tax to the studio income linked to overseas manufacturing.

• Ban overseas movies. Does what it says on the tin.

• Native content material requirement. Related vibe to among the above, however you might require that for a movie to be positioned available on the market within the US a sure proportion of its manufacturing/filming/and many others be carried out within the US.

• Cultural quotas. Time to get a bit extra European. He may require that each one cinemas, television stations, streamers, and many others, present American-produced movies and exhibits XX% of the time.

• Trump display time. With an enormous hat tip to David Allen Inexperienced on Bluesky, this made me chuckle:

  

Or not one of the above.

In essence, what I’m saying is that folks ought to deal with this severely and keep away from the temptation to say “You possibly can’t tariff a movie, you IDIOT” as a result of … he may simply do this.

All collectively now …

The place are movies from?

Staying on the subject of tariffing movies, if the US have been to tariff overseas movies, and significantly if it have been to use completely different tariffs to movies from completely different international locations (e.g., France 100%, Japan 50%, and many others.), we would want to suppose severely concerning the origin of a movie.

Lengthy-term readers of MFN will know that I by no means miss an alternative to write down about guidelines of origin. In the present day is not any completely different.

Now, after we focus on origin it’s often in relation to items. Beneath each non-preferential (exterior of a free commerce settlement) and preferential (lined by a free commerce settlement) regimes, there are guidelines dictating the final word origin of an imported product. Getting this proper will be vital, significantly if it’s the distinction between a, for instance, 10 per cent tariff and a 145 per cent tariff.

However whereas nobody ever actually talks about it, realizing the place a service is imported from may also be vital. For instance, by way of a rustic’s free commerce agreements, some providers suppliers from FTA international locations may have the ability to bid for sure authorities contracts whereas different providers suppliers from non-FTA international locations may not.

Anyhow, the TL;DR is that that is an space the place vibes run free.

From a US perspective, it’s value taking a look at how the origin of different providers has been decided, significantly within the context of procurement.

Particularly, this Observe Legislation briefing highlights the US’s concentrate on the place a overseas vendor or contracter is both headquartered or established.

The briefing additionally gives this Cloud Computing case examine:

Anyway, my guess if the movie tariff is ever applied is that there’s both some particular guidelines targeted on labour hours or the like within the US vs exterior the US or it simply will get very vebsey in a short time.

Greatest,

Sam

Donald Trump is pointing at issues and threatening to tariff them, once more.

And whereas “tariffing overseas movies” might have figured barely decrease on individuals’s predicted hit record, it in all probability shouldn’t have been.

Or to place it one other manner: International international locations present tax incentivies to persuade Hollywood to make movies of their nation quite than within the US.

Does that sound like one thing the Donald would instincitively like?

Over on Bluesky, Simon Lester, has additionally reminded everybody that the concept of tariffing movies isn’t new: Again in 2007, when movies have been nonetheless (largely) transported on bodily movie reel, videotapes or DVDs, the Movie & Tv Motion Committee (FTAC) filed a Part 301 petition searching for an investigation into the legality of overseas authorities movie and TV subsidies designed to draw American productions, with a concentrate on Canada.

Admittedly, tariffing internet knowledge is barely extra sophisticated than tariffing videotapes, so there could also be some logistical points related to Trump’s 100% tariff risk.

However assuming he simply may do one thing, I believe it’s value excited about what that would really appear to be.

Off the highest of my head (and never accounting for whether or not any of those can be potential/authorized below US legislation), listed below are issues he may do which may have an analogous affect:

• Tariff related items. Assuming the primary purpose is definitely to cease overseas international locations from offering tax incentives and grants, he may simply determined to use a load of latest tariffs on vaguely related merchandise (I dunno, stage curtains) till stated international locations cease granting the tax incentives and grants.

• Tax overseas content material. Look, this could be a whole mess however you might concenivably apply 100% tax to studios that produce >XX% of content material exterior of the US. Alternatively, you might apply 100% tax to the studio income linked to overseas manufacturing.

• Ban overseas movies. Does what it says on the tin.

• Native content material requirement. Related vibe to among the above, however you might require that for a movie to be positioned available on the market within the US a sure proportion of its manufacturing/filming/and many others be carried out within the US.

• Cultural quotas. Time to get a bit extra European. He may require that each one cinemas, television stations, streamers, and many others, present American-produced movies and exhibits XX% of the time.

• Trump display time. With an enormous hat tip to David Allen Inexperienced on Bluesky, this made me chuckle:

  

Or not one of the above.

In essence, what I’m saying is that folks ought to deal with this severely and keep away from the temptation to say “You possibly can’t tariff a movie, you IDIOT” as a result of … he may simply do this.

All collectively now …

The place are movies from?

Staying on the subject of tariffing movies, if the US have been to tariff overseas movies, and significantly if it have been to use completely different tariffs to movies from completely different international locations (e.g., France 100%, Japan 50%, and many others.), we would want to suppose severely concerning the origin of a movie.

Lengthy-term readers of MFN will know that I by no means miss an alternative to write down about guidelines of origin. In the present day is not any completely different.

Now, after we focus on origin it’s often in relation to items. Beneath each non-preferential (exterior of a free commerce settlement) and preferential (lined by a free commerce settlement) regimes, there are guidelines dictating the final word origin of an imported product. Getting this proper will be vital, significantly if it’s the distinction between a, for instance, 10 per cent tariff and a 145 per cent tariff.

However whereas nobody ever actually talks about it, realizing the place a service is imported from may also be vital. For instance, by way of a rustic’s free commerce agreements, some providers suppliers from FTA international locations may have the ability to bid for sure authorities contracts whereas different providers suppliers from non-FTA international locations may not.

Anyhow, the TL;DR is that that is an space the place vibes run free.

From a US perspective, it’s value taking a look at how the origin of different providers has been decided, significantly within the context of procurement.

Particularly, this Observe Legislation briefing highlights the US’s concentrate on the place a overseas vendor or contracter is both headquartered or established.

The briefing additionally gives this Cloud Computing case examine:

Anyway, my guess if the movie tariff is ever applied is that there’s both some particular guidelines targeted on labour hours or the like within the US vs exterior the US or it simply will get very vebsey in a short time.

Greatest,

Sam

ADVERTISEMENT

Donald Trump is pointing at issues and threatening to tariff them, once more.

And whereas “tariffing overseas movies” might have figured barely decrease on individuals’s predicted hit record, it in all probability shouldn’t have been.

Or to place it one other manner: International international locations present tax incentivies to persuade Hollywood to make movies of their nation quite than within the US.

Does that sound like one thing the Donald would instincitively like?

Over on Bluesky, Simon Lester, has additionally reminded everybody that the concept of tariffing movies isn’t new: Again in 2007, when movies have been nonetheless (largely) transported on bodily movie reel, videotapes or DVDs, the Movie & Tv Motion Committee (FTAC) filed a Part 301 petition searching for an investigation into the legality of overseas authorities movie and TV subsidies designed to draw American productions, with a concentrate on Canada.

Admittedly, tariffing internet knowledge is barely extra sophisticated than tariffing videotapes, so there could also be some logistical points related to Trump’s 100% tariff risk.

However assuming he simply may do one thing, I believe it’s value excited about what that would really appear to be.

Off the highest of my head (and never accounting for whether or not any of those can be potential/authorized below US legislation), listed below are issues he may do which may have an analogous affect:

• Tariff related items. Assuming the primary purpose is definitely to cease overseas international locations from offering tax incentives and grants, he may simply determined to use a load of latest tariffs on vaguely related merchandise (I dunno, stage curtains) till stated international locations cease granting the tax incentives and grants.

• Tax overseas content material. Look, this could be a whole mess however you might concenivably apply 100% tax to studios that produce >XX% of content material exterior of the US. Alternatively, you might apply 100% tax to the studio income linked to overseas manufacturing.

• Ban overseas movies. Does what it says on the tin.

• Native content material requirement. Related vibe to among the above, however you might require that for a movie to be positioned available on the market within the US a sure proportion of its manufacturing/filming/and many others be carried out within the US.

• Cultural quotas. Time to get a bit extra European. He may require that each one cinemas, television stations, streamers, and many others, present American-produced movies and exhibits XX% of the time.

• Trump display time. With an enormous hat tip to David Allen Inexperienced on Bluesky, this made me chuckle:

  

Or not one of the above.

In essence, what I’m saying is that folks ought to deal with this severely and keep away from the temptation to say “You possibly can’t tariff a movie, you IDIOT” as a result of … he may simply do this.

All collectively now …

The place are movies from?

Staying on the subject of tariffing movies, if the US have been to tariff overseas movies, and significantly if it have been to use completely different tariffs to movies from completely different international locations (e.g., France 100%, Japan 50%, and many others.), we would want to suppose severely concerning the origin of a movie.

Lengthy-term readers of MFN will know that I by no means miss an alternative to write down about guidelines of origin. In the present day is not any completely different.

Now, after we focus on origin it’s often in relation to items. Beneath each non-preferential (exterior of a free commerce settlement) and preferential (lined by a free commerce settlement) regimes, there are guidelines dictating the final word origin of an imported product. Getting this proper will be vital, significantly if it’s the distinction between a, for instance, 10 per cent tariff and a 145 per cent tariff.

However whereas nobody ever actually talks about it, realizing the place a service is imported from may also be vital. For instance, by way of a rustic’s free commerce agreements, some providers suppliers from FTA international locations may have the ability to bid for sure authorities contracts whereas different providers suppliers from non-FTA international locations may not.

Anyhow, the TL;DR is that that is an space the place vibes run free.

From a US perspective, it’s value taking a look at how the origin of different providers has been decided, significantly within the context of procurement.

Particularly, this Observe Legislation briefing highlights the US’s concentrate on the place a overseas vendor or contracter is both headquartered or established.

The briefing additionally gives this Cloud Computing case examine:

Anyway, my guess if the movie tariff is ever applied is that there’s both some particular guidelines targeted on labour hours or the like within the US vs exterior the US or it simply will get very vebsey in a short time.

Greatest,

Sam