{"id":77271,"date":"2025-05-05T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/77271\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:47:08","slug":"trumps-movie-tariff-threat-puzzles-europe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/77271\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s movie tariff threat puzzles Europe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration has yet to explain how the tariff would work or what it would exactly target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Commerce is figuring it out,&#8221; said a White House official, granted anonymity to share details about the internal process. &#8220;Maybe like, the rights to movies or something,&#8221; adding that a study will be launched.<\/p>\n<p>Experts in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnpfaff.bsky.social\/post\/3loggze6yik2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have pointed out<\/a> that movies are exempt from tariff orders, per the so-called Berman Amendment from 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Across the Atlantic, confusion \u2014\u00a0if not surprise \u2014 reigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt that [cinema] could become a battlefield [amid the trade war]. We&#8217;re entering the unpredictable,&#8221; Pascal Rogard, the president of the French authors\u2019 society SACD, said. &#8220;This is contrary to international commitments,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Although the criteria on what constitutes a &#8220;foreign&#8221; production remain unclear and contentious, &#8220;the political gesture is in line with what we expected to happen,&#8221; a French industry insider who, like others contacted by POLITICO for this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely amid the uncertainty surrounding Trump&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The administration has yet to explain how the tariff would work or what it would exactly target. &#8220;Commerce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[37935,37936,32,2000,299,5187,36,806,2452,811,1199,479,1200,1201,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-77271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-audiovisual","9":"tag-copyright","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-industry","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-services","19":"tag-tariffs","20":"tag-tax","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114456955723491155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}