Tariffs Catch-All

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Zoo_View said:
I remember reading in the ‘70’s that publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time were written at an 8th grade level.
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That’s what I recall as well, and the Wall Street Journal was written at a 10th/11th grade level.

During my career, our marketing group used to write technical articles for auto mechanics and we tried to keep the writing at middle school level. Inexpensive video production has made much of this irrelevant as the marketing communications staff now just produces videos of the product managers making good quality how-to demonstrations of new products and posts them on the website.
 
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circlesky88 said:
Movies are next
www.hollywoodreporter.com

Trump Says He’s Instituting a “100% Tariff” on Films Produced Outside of the U.S. Because the “Movie Industry in America Is Dying”

The president posted that Hollywood and other areas are "being devastated" due to "a concerted effort by other Nations," which constitutes a "National Security threat."
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Probably the start of his inept attempt to try and win over some in the entertainment industry, which will almost certainly fail.
 
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Maybe next we should put a tariff on "foreign music", or books published abroad
 
mpaer said:
Maybe next we should put a tariff on "foreign music", or books published abroad
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Oh, that's next on the agenda. Given the morons littering this administration, they'll probably start placing tariffs on cats and dogs with foreign names as if they've been imported. "You own a Shih Tzu? Have you paid a tariff on that thing yet?" This entire trade war is nothing but a primal scream of American isolationism, nativism, and xenophobia taken to their ultimate extremes.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
www.hollywoodreporter.com

Trump’s 100 Percent Tariff on Movies: 8 Key Questions the Industry Is Now Pondering and Dreading

After Trump promised a 100 percent tariff on "any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands," industry figures are frantically trying to come to grips with how the proposal could possibly work.
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The Guardian:

The Australian government says it will stand up for the country’s film industry, in response to Donald Trump’s 100% tariffs on film productions made outside the US.

Australia is such a popular location for foreign film productions, it is sometimes dubbed “Hollywood Down Under” with recent large-scale productions including The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Thor: Ragnarok.

The government’s location offset scheme offers a 30% rebate for big-budget film projects shot in Australia, with additional post-production rebates, and state governments offering further sweeteners.

But the imposition of tariffs could mean these incentives are no longer attractive enough for productions aimed at the massive US market.

Trump’s move will send shock waves through the industry globally, according to industry peak body Screen Producers Australia (SPA).

“At this stage, it is unclear what this announcement means in practice or how it will be applied and implemented”, said the SPA chief executive, Matthew Deaner.

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Dame Caroline Dinenage is a member of the right-leaning Conservative opposition party who chairs the UK parliament’s culture committee. She said members of the committee had warned “against complacency on our status as the Hollywood of Europe” in their report on British film and high-end TV, published last month.

She added:

President Trump’s announcement has made that warning all too real. Making it more difficult to make films in the UK is not in the interests of American businesses. Their investment in facilities and talent in the UK, based on US-owned IP (intellectual property), is showing fantastic returns on both sides of the Atlantic. Ministers must urgently prioritise this as part of the trade negotiations currently under way.
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altmin said:
The Guardian:

The Australian government says it will stand up for the country’s film industry, in response to Donald Trump’s 100% tariffs on film productions made outside the US.

Australia is such a popular location for foreign film productions, it is sometimes dubbed “Hollywood Down Under” with recent large-scale productions including The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Thor: Ragnarok.

The government’s location offset scheme offers a 30% rebate for big-budget film projects shot in Australia, with additional post-production rebates, and state governments offering further sweeteners.

But the imposition of tariffs could mean these incentives are no longer attractive enough for productions aimed at the massive US market.

Trump’s move will send shock waves through the industry globally, according to industry peak body Screen Producers Australia (SPA).

“At this stage, it is unclear what this announcement means in practice or how it will be applied and implemented”, said the SPA chief executive, Matthew Deaner.

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Dame Caroline Dinenage is a member of the right-leaning Conservative opposition party who chairs the UK parliament’s culture committee. She said members of the committee had warned “against complacency on our status as the Hollywood of Europe” in their report on British film and high-end TV, published last month.

She added:
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So, is the idea here that Australian, German, British, French, etc filmmakers will start filing their movies in the USA?
Prime example of Trump not having any strategy or goals with these stupid tariffs.
 
It will work out just fine because the Trump Administration is closing our national parks to visitors and will open them up for filmmakers (or at least those directors who don’t mind having oil wells or strip mines visible in their shots.)
 
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