Trump Calls For 100% Tariff on Movies Made Overseas

Donald Trumppresident

The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! (sic),

he wrote

We’re on it.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick offered little insight beyond a terse statement

The wildfires are destroying our homes, and now the president wants to set the rest of our economy on fire,

said a union rep for film workers in Burbank

We’ll be a great advocate for that sector and that industry.”

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon echoed that sentiment, saying

Tony Burkehome Affairs Minister

Let no one doubt our support for the Australian screen industry,

said Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke

At this stage, it is unclear what this announcement means in practice or how it will be applied and implemented

said the SPA chief executive, Matthew Deaner

President Trump’s imposition of 100% tarif on all films imported into the US may encourage Hollywood to move outside the US! Quite the opposite of what he intended.”

Talking about how the move may adversely affect American cinema, the filmmaker added

Over 75% of box office of Hollywood films come from outside the US. And significant part of the budget of those films are spent outside the US."

Taking to Twitter (now called X), the veteran Indian filmmaker wrote

These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest,

he said

Nobody should be under any doubt that we will be standing up unequivocally for the rights of the Australian screen industry,

he said in a statement

We'll have to see the detail of what actually ultimately emerges. But we'll be obviously a great advocate, great champion of that sector in that industry,

he said

I'm going to be naming somebody,

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One

I think he sort of indirectly already has that job. Because he has a lot to say about a lot of things. He's a very valued person in the administration, Stephen,

said Trump

We’re allowing California to become to the entertainment industry what Detroit has become to the auto industry,

Michael F. Miller Jr., a vice president at the union, told The Times last month

Other nations have been stealing the movie-making capabilities from the United States,

Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in Florida

Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!"

Announcing 100 percent tariffs on movies produced outside US and emphasising need to return to domestic film production, he further wrote

We will follow the market rules, respect the audience’s choice, and moderately reduce the number of American films imported,

the statement noted

WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!"

Trump added

The retaliation will kill our industry. We have a lot more to lose than to gain,

he said,

Unfortunately for all involved, fewer film, television and commercial projects in production makes it harder to fill studio vacancies,

the report read