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So foreign movies are getting a 100% tariff apparently. Lots of questions.

Will that only apply to foreign film studios and the movies they produce, or will it also apply to American studios that film outside the U.S.? For instance, lots of American stuff is filmed in Canada (our trade enemy). What percentage of the film needs to be filmed domestically to avoid a tariff?

What about TV series?

What about streaming platforms? Assume for a second that TV series are included, and then take a series like Carême (a French series) on Apple+, how does that get tariffed? Perhaps they are exempt due to purchasing the series ahead of the tariff. Are there royalties or something similar involved? Does that suddenly incur a 100% tariff?

Maybe it’s all just a bunch of bullshit that never gets paid.

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45 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Given that films aren't really shipped though ordinary trade channels I'm not sure how you apply or collect a tariff. 

You can but because of tradition and deferrement it is not done, services due to treaties never got tariffs based on a memorandum on the World Trade Organization (which is about to expire), one of the million plus reasons the US benefited from the status quo.

IP related service jobs, tech related service jobs, its how the US has such high salaries. We exported Disney movies and in the end got cheap manufactured goods (the only real head scratcher is that it also exported agriculture and this is the morons that voted republican and got fucked by proper tariffs)

Intellectual services jobs > manufacturing jobs > agricultural jobs (specially the way these morons vote)

We are really about to kill the golden goose.

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6 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

So foreign movies are getting a 100% tariff apparently. Lots of questions.

Will that only apply to foreign film studios and the movies they produce, or will it also apply to American studios that film outside the U.S.? For instance, lots of American stuff is filmed in Canada (our trade enemy). What percentage of the film needs to be filmed domestically to avoid a tariff?

What about TV series?

What about streaming platforms? Assume for a second that TV series are included, and then take a series like Carême (a French series) on Apple+, how does that get tariffed? Perhaps they are exempt due to purchasing the series ahead of the tariff. Are there royalties or something similar involved? Does that suddenly incur a 100% tariff?

Maybe it’s all just a bunch of bullshit that never gets paid.

It’s just bullshit to distract us from other nefarious, corrupt, destructive shit he’s doing. Just like taking over Greenland or making Canada the 51st state. 

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

It’s just bullshit to distract us from other nefarious, corrupt, destructive shit he’s doing. Just like taking over Greenland or making Canada the 51st state. 

I'm thinking that is likely and around the internet when one drives past the Hollywood and Christmas doll outrage, there must be something else that's going to drop (besides supply chains and the market) soon that's much worse perhaps?

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I'm assuming Mr. van Meer voted for this.  

 

https://www.ktvu.com/news/afina-showerheads-tariffs-test?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook

 

 

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An entrepreneur facing skyrocketing costs due to tariffs conducted an experiment to see whether customers would voluntarily pay more for a product made in America.

"The result was, unfortunately, disappointing," Ramon van Meer told Fox News Digital. "We sold zero ‘Made in the USA’ shower heads."

Van Meer, a self-described "serial entrepreneur," is the founder of Afina, which sells a shower head that filters chemicals and heavy metals out of tap water. The shower head, manufactured in China and Vietnam, currently sells for $129.

 

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But van Meer said as the cost of tariffs jumped to 170%, he wanted to test whether the company could successfully reshore manufacturing to the U.S.

He found a U.S.-based company that could produce the shower heads — but at nearly triple the cost. To maintain Afina's current profit margins, he listed the U.S. version side-by-side with the original with a brief explanation of the price difference, and gave customers the choice.

"I wanted to really test what [customers will] do if it comes down to it. How would they vote with their wallets?" he said, adding that he anticipated customers would gravitate toward the cheaper option, but not as dramatically as they did. "I was not expecting basically 100% and 0%."

 

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The landing page garnered nearly 26,000 visits over multiple days. Sometimes the U.S. version was the top, pre-selected option, and other times the Asian version was, van Meer said.

It didn't matter. The cheaper option was purchased 584 times compared to zero purchases of the "Made in USA" version.

Van Meer shared the results on X, in a post viewed 10 million times as of Wednesday.

"We want to bring back domestic manufacturing. But when consumers face the actual price tag — they didn’t," van Meer wrote.

President Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a tool to decrease America's trade deficit and return manufacturing jobs to the U.S. But van Meer said the country lacks the manufacturing infrastructure to produce enough goods to meet demand right away. 

"[In other countries] manufacturing plants can make thousands, in some cases tens of thousands, of units a day or a week," van Meer said. "They have been doing this for many years, and they have all the machineries, they have the workforce. Versus in the United States, I basically had to start from scratch."

He said he couldn't find a single domestic manufacturer with the capacity to fill all of Afina's monthly orders.

"Bringing back some manufacturing jobs is not a bad idea," he said. "The problem is, I don't think it's gonna happen overnight. It's gonna take a couple of years of a lot of investment, money and time, to actually build the manufacturing plants."

And that still won't allow America to manufacture 100% of its goods, van Meer said. He pitched a health-monitoring cat litter on season 15 of the show "Shark Tank" that he said could not legally be manufactured in the U.S. due to strict environmental regulations.

In the automotive sector, states like California are pushing for an all-electric future, but mining for battery minerals is an expensive venture in the U.S., often stalled by permitting processes and environmental regulations.

Afina's shower head filter similarly contains materials not made in the United States, van Meer said.

"There's a lot of products that, even if you wanted to bring it back, it's just not possible," he said.

Trump has paused or eased many of the tariffs announced on April 2, which he dubbed "Liberation Day." But negotiations with China have remained contentious, with the Trump administration announcing a minimum 145% tariff on Chinese imports. China responded by boosting its tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%.

Van Meer told Fox News Digital the Asian-made shower head price is still at its pre-tariff level because Afina has six months of surplus inventory. Once that's used up, he said the price will increase but will still be "significantly" cheaper than that of an American-manufactured shower head.

Whether Americans support tariffs or not, van Meer said he hopes they recognize that most businesses are operating on thin margins.

"Some of us cannot even pay the new tariff bills, let alone build our own manufacturing plants," he said.

 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I'm assuming Mr. van Meer voted for this.  

 

https://www.ktvu.com/news/afina-showerheads-tariffs-test?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook

 

 

 

 

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The landing page garnered nearly 26,000 visits over multiple days. Sometimes the U.S. version was the top, pre-selected option, and other times the Asian version was, van Meer said.

It didn't matter. The cheaper option was purchased 584 times compared to zero purchases of the "Made in USA" version.

Van Meer shared the results on X, in a post viewed 10 million times as of Wednesday.

"We want to bring back domestic manufacturing. But when consumers face the actual price tag — they didn’t," van Meer wrote.

President Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a tool to decrease America's trade deficit and return manufacturing jobs to the U.S. But van Meer said the country lacks the manufacturing infrastructure to produce enough goods to meet demand right away. 

"[In other countries] manufacturing plants can make thousands, in some cases tens of thousands, of units a day or a week," van Meer said. "They have been doing this for many years, and they have all the machineries, they have the workforce. Versus in the United States, I basically had to start from scratch."

He said he couldn't find a single domestic manufacturer with the capacity to fill all of Afina's monthly orders.

"Bringing back some manufacturing jobs is not a bad idea," he said. "The problem is, I don't think it's gonna happen overnight. It's gonna take a couple of years of a lot of investment, money and time, to actually build the manufacturing plants."

And that still won't allow America to manufacture 100% of its goods, van Meer said. He pitched a health-monitoring cat litter on season 15 of the show "Shark Tank" that he said could not legally be manufactured in the U.S. due to strict environmental regulations.

In the automotive sector, states like California are pushing for an all-electric future, but mining for battery minerals is an expensive venture in the U.S., often stalled by permitting processes and environmental regulations.

Afina's shower head filter similarly contains materials not made in the United States, van Meer said.

"There's a lot of products that, even if you wanted to bring it back, it's just not possible," he said.

Trump has paused or eased many of the tariffs announced on April 2, which he dubbed "Liberation Day." But negotiations with China have remained contentious, with the Trump administration announcing a minimum 145% tariff on Chinese imports. China responded by boosting its tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%.

Van Meer told Fox News Digital the Asian-made shower head price is still at its pre-tariff level because Afina has six months of surplus inventory. Once that's used up, he said the price will increase but will still be "significantly" cheaper than that of an American-manufactured shower head.

Whether Americans support tariffs or not, van Meer said he hopes they recognize that most businesses are operating on thin margins.

"Some of us cannot even pay the new tariff bills, let alone build our own manufacturing plants," he said.

 

It is depressing how stupid so many people are. The fact that he thought the result might be anything different is astounding. 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

"I wanted to really test what [customers will] do if it comes down to it. How would they vote with their wallets?" he said, adding that he anticipated customers would gravitate toward the cheaper option, but not as dramatically as they did. "I was not expecting basically 100% and 0

 

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Has Ramon met any actual Americans? 

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It’s just bullshit to distract us from other nefarious, corrupt, destructive shit he’s doing. Just like taking over Greenland or making Canada the 51st state. 

He’s Gov LePetomaine in Blazing Saddles. They let him amuse himself with the shit that makes him happy — grifting, playing golf, bringing back Columbus Day, annexing Greenland/Canada/Panama, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and sundry other culture war bullshit — while the truly evil puppet masters do all kinds of nefarious shit.

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

He found a U.S.-based company that could produce the shower heads — but at nearly triple the cost.

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this country is full of really stupid people. 

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19 minutes ago, Blotto said:

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this country is full of really stupid people. 

How much ya'll wanna bet the "US Manufacture" just batch bought from the Asia manufacture and tripled the price.

 

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48 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Good luck finding a substitute. Sure, there are other motorcycles, but ONLY  Harley Davidson can turn fuel into noise without the creation of commensurate power or speed. 

And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.

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12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.

Christ man, you should write a movie.....or did you already?
Wild Hogs' not so wild

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12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.

Dentist, lawyer...   220, 221.  Whatever it takes.

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2 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Dentist, lawyer...   220, 221.  Whatever it takes.

Due process?  Do wheelies!

 

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23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And if you're a dentist who wants to look tough, while carrying a companion of prematurely aged skin and overly saggy breasts, there really is no other choice of ride.

10 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Dentist, lawyer...   220, 221.  Whatever it takes.

Good thing he didn't say accountant 

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All of that shit, except maybe the whisky, is assembled in America from parts made in other countries. Not made in America. 

The myth of American Quality has been eroding for decades, but in the last 15 years has really taken a nose dive. In the guitar industry it's become very apparent. Assembled in the USA products from Fender and Gibson that cost $2500 to easily over $10k have had major quality control issues for years now. What has changed is many brand's made in Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, and even China guitars have increased in quality exponentially in the last decade. There's very little difference in actual quality, but 5 to 10 times the difference in price. 

The US was already starting to get left behind. That has accelerated greatly now with the stupidity. 

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That fucking guy badly baaadly overplayed his hand. Does he think the rest of the world wasn’t already strategizing for his return and what it could mean for them? Of course they were. I still think they’re shocked that it actually happened, but they were ready to pivot. It is quite possibly, some even say, the greatest botch in our history. Beautiful blunder. 

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I'm trying to think of what I get form India and I think it's just shitloads of curry and basmati.

Oh, also my favorite dad joke.  You have to say this one phonetically in an Indian accent:

(American accent) Why is there no Halloween in India?

(Indian accent) Someone took all the Candy! 

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Someone took all the Ghandi!

 

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19 hours ago, bolverk said:

Sounds like the toxicity of the "Made in the USA" brand is spreading from Canada to Europe now, too. 

Hell it's spreading in my house in the USA. If given the choice I'd buy Canadian or European too.

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Everyone is figuring out how to play a malignant narcissist.  Canadian PM is the latest.  I guarantee behind closed doors they're blowing smoke up Trump's big ass then he comes out a totally different person.  It's going to drive his handlers insane. But he's unable to criticize anyone who really kisses his ass.  

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34 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

That fucking guy badly baaadly overplayed his hand. Does he think the rest of the world wasn’t already strategizing for his return and what it could mean for them? Of course they were. I still think they’re shocked that it actually happened, but they were ready to pivot. It is quite possibly, some even say, the greatest botch in our history. Beautiful blunder. 

Some people are saying, the most beautiful blunder.   The best ever. 

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

Assembled in the USA products from Fender and Gibson that cost $2500 to easily over $10k have had major quality control issues for years now.

On the other hand 90% of the owners can’t play for shit so the damage is contained to friends and family.  Thoughts and Prayers. 🙏

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3 hours ago, Hermanator said:

All of that shit, except maybe the whisky, is assembled in America from parts made in other countries. Not made in America. 

The myth of American Quality has been eroding for decades, but in the last 15 years has really taken a nose dive. In the guitar industry it's become very apparent. Assembled in the USA products from Fender and Gibson that cost $2500 to easily over $10k have had major quality control issues for years now. What has changed is many brand's made in Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, and even China guitars have increased in quality exponentially in the last decade. There's very little difference in actual quality, but 5 to 10 times the difference in price. 

The US was already starting to get left behind. That has accelerated greatly now with the stupidity. 

No. Gibson had issues for a while, but Fender has been as good as they've ever been for years now.  

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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

On the other hand 90% of the owners can’t play for shit so the damage is contained to friends and family.  Thoughts and Prayers. 🙏

100% true. 



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