BRITAIN’S performing artists are “industrial-action ready” in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, Equity’s newly re-elected general secretary Paul W Fleming said on Saturday.

Addressing the union’s annual conference in Derry, he said that the threat from the  proposed 100 per cent tariff on international films will not lead to a change in Equity’s demands.

The union has put forward a claim for better pay and a demand for regulation on the use of generative AI via Pact (the Producers Alliance for Cinema & Television), Britain’s screen sector trade body for independent production and distribution companies.