President Donald Trump announced plans on Sunday to implement a 100% tariff on films made in other countries that are imported to the United States, denouncing other nations for offering financial incentives aimed at “removing our filmmakers and studies in the United States.”
“Hollywood, and many other areas within the United States, are being devastated. This is a concerted effort of other nations and, therefore, a national security threat,” Trump wrote in Truth Social, referring to foreign films such as “messages and propaganda.”
“I am authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States commercial representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any film that enters our country that occurs in foreign lands,” he continued.
Trump told White House journalists on Sunday that “other nations have been stealing the films, the manufacturing capabilities of the United States,” Newsom blamed the Governor of California for the decline in cinematographic production in Hollywood specifically in recent years.
A Newsom spokesman did not respond to a comment request on Sunday night.
“If you are not willing to make a movie inside the United States, we should have a rate when movies enter,” Trump said. “I can tell you one thing, the Moviemádico loves.”
The American film industry has suffered a series of economic blows in recent years, including Hollywood work strikes and Covid-19 pandemic.
Physical production has decreased in California in the midst of budget cuts and more generous tax incentives in other places. Filmla, a non -profit organization that coordinates the cinema allows and supports location production in the Los Angeles region, reported the lowest sound occupation than the average in recent years. The report indicates that competitive jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada, have more to double their scenic production capacity in recent years, along with other US states, such as New York and Georgia.
However, while general production decreased in Los Angeles, the report found that the production of films specifically increased 18.8% last year, although the category is still well below its average of five years.
“Unfortunately, for all those involved, less film, television and commercial projects in production make it more difficult to fill out study vacancies,” reads the report.
Trump appointed actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as special ambassadors in Hollywood in January, calling the industry an “excellent but very problematic place.” His work, Trump said at that time, was to bring business back to Hollywood, who said “has lost a lot of business in the last four years to foreign countries.”
Last month, Voight’s manager Steven Paul, confirmed to NBC News that he and Voight intended to present Trump a set of ideas to increase American film and television production. It is not clear if that meeting has happened.
NBC News did not immediately receive answers to Paul’s comments; The Motion Picture Association, a commercial group that represents the studies; Cinema United, a commercial group that represents cinemas; and several distributors who release foreign manufacturing films, including Netflix.
China announced new tariffs on Hollywood films imported to the country approximately one month ago, although Reuters reports that it was unlikely that the move had a significant financial impact on Hollywood since box office returns in constant decrease in China.
