A 100% tariff to films “that occur outside the United States.” President Donald Trump added on Monday that new rate to the repertoire of arms of his commercial war in pursuit of isolationism, in addition to another tax (which did not specify what amount) to “any country that does not manufacture its furniture” in the country.
Both ads made them in their social network. The cinema justified in the “robbery” that, in his opinion, “other countries” have carried out with the American film industry “like who steals a sweet to a baby.” Trump took advantage of the announcement to load against one of his favorite whites, the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, “weak and incompetent,”
Many details were missing in that message to understand how those taxes will work (will ticket prices upload for those films?), But, above all, when they will enter into force. The writing of the text is understood that foreign films will pay that tariff, but also the US films that are whether abroad.
In the case of furniture, Trump justifies the new tariff in the fact that North Carolina has lost that business “in front of China and other countries.”
Repeated threat
If the threat of cinema is familiar, it is because Trump has already launched it last May, “I authorize the trade department to start the process of instituting 100% in any film arriving in our country produced in foreign lands,” he notified, also without giving more details.
Trump’s goal, he said in his message with exclamations and capital letters, is to protect native cinema through this mandate to the Department of Commerce and the US Commercial Representative office, headed by Howard Lutnick and Jamieson Greer: “We want cinema made in the United States, again!”, Trump wrote, after warning that the US film industry is died quickly”.
This Monday’s announcement comes after last week Trump will launch a new battery of sectoral tariffs to tax the drugs that do not occur in the United States (100%), except those of those companies that are building a plant in national territory; kitchen furniture and bath dressers (50%); and heavy trucks “large! manufactured in other parts of the world” (25%).
Those, and, now, those of cinema enter the category of rates with which Trump has slapped cars manufacturers or aluminum, steel or copper producers (all of them with 50%).
On the other hand there are the tariffs that Trump insists on calling “reciprocal”, because he considers that with them he answers decades of abuse to the United States by their commercial partners. These, which are challenged before the Supreme Court, which are expected to issue a sentence before the end of the year, they vary from country to country, as part of a list that sometimes seemed governed by the whim.
