The United States will move ahead with a 100% tariff on all movies made outside the country, President Donald Trump confirmed in a post on Truth Social on Monday.

Trump said the American film business had been taken over by competitors abroad. "Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other countries, just like stealing 'candy from a baby'," he wrote.

The announcement formalises what Trump had first signalled in May, when he authorised the Department of Commerce and the US Trade Representative (USTR) to begin the process of imposing steep duties on foreign films. At the time, he framed the issue as both economic and strategic, warning that "the American movie industry is dying a very fast death."

Calling it a “concerted effort by other Nations and,

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