{"id":47769,"date":"2026-03-17T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/netflixs-ted-sarandos-says-he-asked-trump-not-to-pursue-movie-tariffs-heres-what-he-proposed-instead\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:32:14","slug":"netflixs-ted-sarandos-says-he-asked-trump-not-to-pursue-movie-tariffs-heres-what-he-proposed-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/netflixs-ted-sarandos-says-he-asked-trump-not-to-pursue-movie-tariffs-heres-what-he-proposed-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Ted Sarandos says he asked Trump not to pursue movie tariffs. Here&#8217;s what he proposed instead."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69b85a69a7a4f9df67ba6b77?format=jpeg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos<\/p>\n<p>Heather Diehl\/Andrew Leyden\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Netflix&#039;s co-CEO said he&#039;s asked President Donald Trump to avoid tariffs on foreign-made films and TV.<\/li>\n<li>Ted Sarandos said he thinks tax incentives are a better bet to boost US production.<\/li>\n<li>Global filmmaking has been a key differentiator for Netflix in the streaming wars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos doesn&#039;t think tariffs are the right way to boost US movie and TV production \u2014 and he thinks he&#039;s gotten through to President Donald Trump on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has brought up tariffs for the movie and television industry many times, and I&#039;ve hopefully talked to him the way out of them,&quot; Sarandos said in a new interview with POLITICO, which, alongside Business Insider, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been keen on using tariffs to encourage more filming in the US. In May, he announced on Truth Social a plan to impose a 100% tariff on films produced outside the US. He hasn&#039;t implemented it so far.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#039;s plan to add tariffs on foreign movies stemmed from a desire to slow production declines in Hollywood and other areas of the US that &quot;are being devastated&quot; by filming incentive programs abroad, he wrote in his May announcement on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles production work has been dropping off for years, and the city&#039;s media professionals are feeling the pain. Overseas filming hubs like London have been courting production work by offering big cost-saving incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Sarandos said he&#039;d prefer the US use similar tax incentives to bring filming back home.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Healthy incentive programs attract a lot of production, and you&#039;ve seen a lot of them move from California to Georgia to New Jersey,&quot; Sarandos told POLITICO. &quot;Having the incentives versus tariffs is much better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The tariff structure for a movie, which isn&#039;t a physical good, isn&#039;t entirely clear. A White House spokesman said in a statement shortly after Trump&#039;s announcement that &quot;no final decisions on foreign film tariffs&quot; had been made and that the administration was &quot;exploring all options to deliver on President Trump&#039;s directive to safeguard our country&#039;s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A fee on foreign productions could become very expensive for Netflix, which has released a slate of international films and TV shows over the years, including &quot;All Quiet on the Western Front,&quot; &quot;Squid Game,&quot; and &quot;Adolescence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#039;s global reach and its ability to turn a South Korean or German drama into a global hit have been key differentiators for the company, which is expected to spend as much as $20 billion on content this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos Heather Diehl\/Andrew Leyden\/Getty Images Netflix&#039;s co-CEO said he&#039;s asked President Donald Trump to avoid tariffs on foreign-made films and TV. Ted Sarandos said he thinks tax incentives are a better bet to boost US production. Global filmmaking has been a key differentiator for Netflix in the streaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}