Trump’s administration has not yet completed any decision on the tariffs of foreign films, but “examining all the possibilities” to meet President Donald Trump’s directive to protect the domestic film industry, said the White House spokesman Kush Desai on Monday (May 5).
“Although no final decisions on the tariffs of foreign films have been made, the administration examines all the possibilities to provide President Trump to protect the national and economic security of our country and at the same time make Hollywood great,” Desai said in a statement.
Trump claims that foreign incentives kill American cinema
The political discussion follows Trump’s Sunday Post about Truth Social, saying that the American film industry dies “very fast death” due to aggressive foreign subsidies that lured US productions.
To face this, Trump announced that it is allowing agencies such as the Ministry of Trade, to launch a 100% tariff on all films produced outside the US and imported for distribution.
Trump wrote In the Social Truth, “he allowed the Ministries of Trade and the United States Sales representative to immediately start the introduction of 100% of the tariff on all films coming to our country, which are produced in foreign countries”.
“We’re on it”: Action of the Chief Chief Signal
Minister of Trade Howard Lutnick offered a brief confirmation of the momentum of the administration and said, “We are on it,” but provided no more details. The US sales representative refused to comment.
Industry in the dark above the implementation
The White House must still clarify the legal foundation or mechanism of the proposed tariff, so the film industry is not and worried. From now on, the design of the administration remains in the reconnaissance phase, but a strong rhetorical and signals the possibility of a large disturbance of the lecture film to a high level of involvement.
Global trace of Hollywood productions
Many Hollywood films are of global nature, and production often spans more countries. From international shooting places to post -production work externally abroad, studies have long relied on foreign incentives and lower costs of working on projects with a large budget.
However, it remains unclear, as the proposed 100% tariff would apply – whether it only focused on new production or also includes films that have already been completed but have not yet been published.
“Our film industry was decimated by other countries,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “I want to help the industry. But they get funding from other countries.”
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