President Donald Trump has announced the plans on Sunday to apply 100% tariff for films made to other countries that are imported into the United States by declaring other countries to offer financial incentives designed to “attract our films and studios away from the United States.”
“Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are devastated. This is a consistent effort from other nations and therefore a threat to national security,” Trump wrote to Truth Social, citing foreign films such as “messages and propaganda”.
“I authorize the Ministry of Trade and the United States Commercial Representative to immediately begin the process of introducing a 100% tariff for all and all films that enter our country that are produced in foreign lands,” he continued.
Trump told White House reporters on Sunday that “other nations have steal films, the opportunities to create movements from the United States,” accusing the California Newsom government of declining in Hollywood in the last few years.
Newsom spokesman did not answer a request for a comment on Sunday night.
“If they do not want to make a movie in the United States, we must have a tariff when movies come in,” Trump said. “I can tell you one thing, the manufacturers of movement love it.”
The American film industry has undergone a series of economic strikes in recent years, including Hollywood labor strikes and Covid-19 pandemics.
Physical production decreases in California against the background of reducing budget and more tax incentives elsewhere. Filmla, a non-profit organization that coordinates the film, authorizes and supports production on-site in the Los Angeles area, has reported employment with lower than the middle stage in recent years. The report notes that competitive jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada, have doubled their stage production capacity in recent years, along with other states in the United States, such as New York and Georgia.
However, while total production has declined in Los Angeles, the report found that feature films were specifically increased by 18.8% last year, although the category was still well below the average for its five -year -old.
“Unfortunately, all participating, less film, television and commercial projects in production make it difficult to fill the vacancies in the studio,” the report said.
Trump has appointed actors John Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as special ambassadors to Hollywood in January, calling the industry “a great but very anxious place.” Their work, Trump said at that time, was to return the business to Hollywood, which he said “has lost a lot of business in the last four years in foreign countries.”
Last month, Voight manager, Stephen Paul, confirmed to NBC News that he and Voight intend to present Trump with a set of ideas to increase American film and television production. It is unclear whether this meeting has come.
The Film Association, a commercial organization, which represents the leading studios of Hollywood, declined to comment. In a recent economic report based on US government data, MPA found that Hollywood has a positive trade balance in all major markets in the world.
NBC News did not immediately receive response to Paul’s comment requests; Cinema United, a commercial group that represents cinemas; And several distributors that make films produced abroad, including Netflix.
China has announced new tariffs for Hollywood films imported into the country about a month ago, although Reuters reports that this move is unlikely to have a significant financial impact on Hollywood, given the constantly decreasing return on the cashier from China.
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