Donald Trump has restated his intention to introduce a 100 per cent tariff on all movies produced outside the United States, a move that would have enormous consequences not just for Hollywood but for those countries – Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada among them – in which the studios increasingly base their filmmaking efforts.

The US president announced the plan on his social media platform Truth Social overnight, stating, “Our movie making business has been stolen … Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States”.

The threat was first made by Trump in May . As then, this latest statement lacks any clear detail about how or when the move would be implemented. I

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