He Donald Trump’s second presidency script is being written with duty as one of its main resources and this Monday has touched the cine, again. The Republican has announced with a Message in Truth Social that will impose 100% levies “to each and every one of the films made outside the US”.
As usual when you make your ads through social networks, Trump has not given details How would that new tariff regime work, an authentic earthquake in the audiovisual world with which He had already threatened in May. That warning was followed, in just one day, the qualification of the White House that there was no definitive decision.
Neither the White House nor the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have given more details or reactions to Trump’s announcement this Monday, which leaves more open questions than it resolves.
According to MPA data cited by the specialized publication DeadlineAmerican cinema is very far from being deficit in the commercial balance. In all important world markets audiovisual exports are 3.1 times more than imports. In figures, exports worth 22.6 billion dollars, leave 15.3 billion as a commercial surplus.
The executives of American studies, according to Deadline, are worried that Trump can put limits on shooting outside the US, filming that have been growing as other countries were generous incentiveswith which production costs have been reduced.
Internal wars
What Trump’s message this Monday evidence is how he uses a Global Impact Commercial War With a domestic political approach. In his announcement on Monday, in which he ensures that “other countries have been stealing” the American film business so easily “How to steal candy to a child,” He states that California, the state that includes Hollywood, has been “beaten with special hardness” and takes advantage of Gavin Newsom. The Democratic governor has raised himself as the president’s political archiene, who calls him in his message “incompetent and weak. ”
Newsom, however, has been trying to increase production in California for several months with an effort to improve the tax incentive program and equate them to those of states such as Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. In July he signed a law that raised fiscal incentives for film and television shooting to 750 million and another proposal of law that would make the aid, sitcoms and large competitions can be processed.
The sequel
When in May Trump launched the idea of tariffs on productions abroad, he spoke that this “escape” represented a “threat to national security.” A week after that ad, two “special envoys” of Trump for Hollywood, Jon Voight y Sylvester Stallonethey wrote a letter to the president with proposals to raise incentives to production, a letter that did not mention tariffs. Union and Large Studies Leaders They joined that letter.
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