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Title: Trump Threatens 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Films

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/05/2145...

Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made
films, citing national security concerns and accusing other countries of
luring U.S. film production abroad with incentives. PBS reports: "The Movie
Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," he wrote [on his Truth
Social platform], complaining that other countries "are offering all sorts of
incentives to draw" filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. "This is a
concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.
It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!" It wasn't
immediately clear how any such tariff on international productions could be
implemented. It's common for both large and small films to include production
in the U.S. and in other countries. Big-budget movies like the upcoming
"Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning," for instance, are shot around
the world. Incentive programs for years have influenced where movies are
shot, increasingly driving film production out of California and to other
states and countries with favorable tax incentives, like Canada and the
United Kingdom. Yet Trump's tariffs are designed to lead consumers toward
American products. And in movie theaters, American-produced movies
overwhelming dominate the domestic marketplace. "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. "If they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States
we should have a tariff on movies that come in."

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