The leaders of the foremost Hollywood studios and streaming firms gathered on Zoom on Friday for a particular assembly with Movement Image Affiliation chief Charlies Rivkin to strategize about methods to deal with President Trump’s threatened movie tariffs.

The aim was to discover a delicate strategy to educate the White Home on the complexities of the movie enterprise, in addition to the issue of making use of a tariff on a product that isn’t a standard good within the sense of a automobile or a hammer. Furthermore, many movies are shot in a number of international areas each as a result of a narrative requires a sure setting, and due to the prices. Put up-production work on visible results and modifying can also happen in numerous nations to reap the benefits of subsidies.

The executives argued on the decision that many movies are nonetheless shot within the U.S, together with in such manufacturing hotspots as Georgia, New Jersey, and New York that provide beneficiant manufacturing incentives, in accordance with three individuals with information of the dialogue. They hope that they’ll persuade the president that the issue of runaway manufacturing largely impacts the state of California, which doesn’t provide the identical degree of subsidies as different states.

The group of roughly 20 executives included Common Footage chair and NBCUniversal Leisure & Studios chief Donna Langley, Disney Leisure co-chairman Alan Bergman, Paramount World co-CEO Brian Robbins, Amazon MGM Studios’ chief Mike Hopkins and movie chief Courtenay Valenti, Sony Footage Movement Image Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Warner Bros. movie chief Michael De Luca and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. The assembly was a follow-up to a name the executives held on Monday with the MPA.

President Trump has signaled that he’s open to assembly with the studio chiefs, although no sit-down has been scheduled. If one takes place, the MPA and the studios for whom it lobbies plan to emphasize that the U.S. maintains a $15 billion commerce surplus relating to movie exports and that the sector is internet constructive. The aim is to discover a strategy to work collaboratively with Trump and to get in entrance of the possibly disruptive strikes from the president.

The executives proceed to be confused about whether or not or not the tariff that the president floated would apply solely to films, or if TV and streaming movies would even be topic to the levy. If these tariffs are enacted, there are issues that it will shatter the mannequin for the way movies are financed and made, resulting in a dramatic drop in manufacturing. They may additionally encourage international nations to impose their very own tariffs and taxes on U.S. movies.

Rivkin known as the assembly earlier this week because the business struggled to reply to Trump’s social media message that an 100% tariff can be slapped on “any and all” films produced in “international lands.”

A spokesperson for the MPA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.