Reel problems How plans for levy could affect worldwide industry

Donald Trump's announcement that films coming into the US "that are produced in Foreign Lands" will be subject to a 100% tariff has certainly caught the attention of Hollywood, as well as the international film industries it seems aimed at - principally Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, as well as European countries such as Hungary and Italy that have often acted as bases for US film production.

- Andrew Pulver

Trump's target appears to be the outsourcing of production by Hollywood studios, who for decades have used overseas studios and locations to cut costs as well as film using unusual backdrops.

To take some random recent examples: the new Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was mostly shot in the UK, at Longcross studios in Surrey and the Lake District, but also in Malta, Norway and South Africa, as well as an American aircraft carrier docked in Italy. Marvel's new superhero blockbuster Thunderbolts* was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, but a key scene took place at Merdeka 118, a skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its score was recorded at Abbey Road, London.