President Trump orders '100% tariff' on all movies produced abroad

Kathmandu: US President Donald Trump has said he was ordering new tariffs on all films made outside the United States, claiming Hollywood was being "devastated" by a trend of US filmmakers and studios working abroad.

The announcement comes as the White House is coming under mounting criticism over its aggressive trade policies that have seen Trump impose sweeping tariffs on countries around the globe. 'I am authorising the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands,' he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

'WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!' Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reposted Trump's missive, saying, 'We're on it. 'No details were provided on how the tariff would be implemented.

President Trump's post comes after China, which has taken the brunt of the US president's combative trade policies with 145 per cent tariffs on many goods, said last month it would reduce the number of US films it imported. 'The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States,' President Trump wrote on Sunday.

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