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Why Trump’s plans for tariffs on foreign films probably won’t have a happy ending

By Jean Chalaby, Professor of Sociology, City St George's, University of London

With its tariffs policies, the administration of US president Donald Trump aims to correct the country’s persistent goods trade deficit. The president has argued that the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered” by other countries. Trump feels it is now America’s “turn to prosper” – and he has the film and TV industries in his sights with threats of 100% tariffs on foreign films.

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