Donald Trump threatens 100% tariffs for films outside the USA | News

The US film industry was in Tenterhooks on Sunday evening, after US President Donald Trump declared that he had instructed the Ministry of Commerce and the US trade representative to implement a 100% tariff for all films that are produced into the country that was produced in foreign countries.

Trump about the social of truth in the truth and said that the US film industry “died very quickly” when filmmakers and studios were lured to overseas by incentives, a situation in which the incumbent of the White House was described as a national security threat. He signed off in the all-caps declaration. “We want films in America again!”

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US studio, streamer and independent productions have been filmed in Canada, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, Australia and other regions for years in order to avoid high costs in places such as Los Angeles and to benefit from attractive incentives, lower costs and expert -international crews.

No studio sources had commented on Sunday evening and there are many strangers.

Trump mentioned the film, but no television in his contribution. He took a break to implement a flood of tariffs for imported goods from all over the world with the exception of China. Films are essentially digital goods, and a world trade organization Moratorium blocks countries of imposing tariffs to digital goods.

It was unclear when and exactly in which form film tariffs come into force and whether they would include post -production services. So far, Trump's tariff suggestions have not extended to services. Sources said the matter was complicated and would probably take time to come into force. The incumbent of the White House is notoriously spontaneous and unpredictable, and it remains to be the possibility that he will go back part of his explanation and try to mitigate himself against control in another way.

Nobody could say whether the proposed tariffs would influence American films that were shot in all or in part in overseas and how tariffs would be calculated. Disney's Marvel has a British hub and Avengers: Doomsday Production began in March. Sony/Marvel's fourth Spider-Man Rate with Tom Holland Shoot in Great Britain later this year.

Universal shot Christpher Nolan's The Odyssey in Morocco and other places and is shot as part of the film in Los Angeles. Warner Bros operates Warner Bros Studios in Great Britain and in Great Britain and Screen According to reports, JJ Abrams' next function is in pre -production. Netflix has a large international production plan for original and license films from all over the world.

It was also an overview of it Accompany publications such as Paramount/Skydance's Memorial Day Tentpole and Tom Cruise -Stars Mission: impossible – the last billing, and July -publication Fantastic four: first steps, which Raised in Pinewood Studios last year.

Trump's Edict alerted the independent business because it is preparing to get off in Cannes after an intensive week from right-wing and co-production talks.

A 100% tariff for films that are produced outside the United States could theoretically have a deep impact on us buyers of international films that can rise at a festival like Cannes and can intervene deeply into the award ceremony. It was unclear whether there would be a budget upper limit for affected films.

China, which is located in an escalating trade war with the United States and a tariff of 145% on its goods, recently said that it restricted the number of Hollywood films that would import it. American sales employees will now wonder whether international buyers of their films will be forced to operate under mutual tariffs from their countries.

California incentive

The US production all over the world has come to the fore in the past year or as much, since the effects of the Hollywood strikes 2023 filmmakers, studios and independent prompted to shoot in other countries.

The California governor Gavin Newsom urges more than double California film and television programs by the California film loan credit programs from USD $ 750 million, and two invoices go by the state's legislator to increase the scope and discount.

Efforts were made to introduce a federal production incentive that is supported in the industry and touches emotional topics such as economic development and creation of jobs.

The topic seems to create American jobs in the politics of Trump, ironically to the congress member, who has raised the indictment of the federal government's production efforts, Adam Schiff, the junior senator from California, the indictment, is not a Trump favorite after it was appointed in 2019.

It remained unclear how Trump's so-called special ambassadors in Hollywood-Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight-in all of that.

Voight should work on a plan even though no details have been created. In addition to their long associations with studios, Gibson and Stallone are also independent Stalwarts that staged, in which independent space are built up and have produced costly films.

Not too long ago, Gibson Fox News said that it was cheaper for him to fly an entire crew to Europe and pay for a three -day shoot for accommodation than filming in Los Angeles for a day.

In his last report in April, Filmla said that the production levels had dropped by 28.9% in the first quarter, and the agency said that 2024 was the second largest productive year behind Covid Avly 2020.