US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that it will impose 100 % import duties for all films made abroad. He repeated the warnings four months ago. This was reported by Reuters and DPA.
On his social network Truth Social Trump said that “The United States have stolen their film business”. High duties in the case of making movies abroad threatened already in May, and then declared that “The American film industry dies very rapid death because other countries offer all possible incentives to lure filmmakers and studies from the United States.” According to Trump it “Pose a threat to national security”.
However, he did not disclose the details of his plans. White House on the Reuters question, how the administration intends to implement these duties, did not respond. Representatives of film studios such as Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Skydance did not want to comment.
Analysts point out that a number of films are produced in cooperation with other countries. Extra It is not ordinary goods imported in a classic way. This means that the government will have to determine the way of their evaluation and whether it is even possible to consider the production of the film to be imported.
