- The president warned that countries “steal films” with tinseltown In agreed efforts threatening the United States, giving him freedom to impose tariffs. Experts say it is not only unclear how to recover import duties and what criteria will apply, but real risks can be in technology – not geography.
At first it was steel, then it was cars, now it’s movies. The list of industries, which were considered critical for the US national security, increased on Sunday after President Trump announced plans to impose 100% tariffs on films made abroad.
The president claimed that Tinseltown was “devastated” by countries that offered Studios Strientives to shoot.
“These are agreed efforts of other countries, and therefore, the threat of national security,” he said, referring to that foreign films can impose other people’s views of antitative American values. “This, besides everything else, messages and propaganda.”
Trump’s first 100 days were characterized ‘Economic War Against the World“One minute imposing tariffs just to throw them back.
However, the fare for the film would be the first time that Trump charged the import duties on something outside the material products made by manufacturers. While movies require physical drums to be guided at the cinema, the movies themselves are often classified as audiovisual services within international trade. Meanwhile, movies that come across at home are regarded as digital goods is still subject to a moratorium On tariffs.
Uncertainty in how tariffs can apply to movies
“We’re on this,” Trump’s Secretary of Trade Howard Lutno published by X.
Determining whether the good is internal or foreign is quite simple. UnderThe Rules of OriginGovernments study how much content in a particular product comes from deposits sent from the border, and when certain thresholds are made, they are released.
For example, electrical vehicles raised in the US can be considered an import if they are counting on the batteries – the only great price in goods – imported from China.
As the same approach can apply to movies to determine their economic nationality. There is trade protectionism, but it has the form of unverified barriers such as quotas and mandates designed to serve the domestic audience or promote a specific culture.
“It is unclear what will affect. Is it just movies or also streaming series?” Hening Molfenter, former head of film production and television production in German studio Babelsberg – Note In the comments to Hollywood reporter. “These are visual effects, joint products, international financing? There is a great degree of uncertainty.”
Trump warns that other countries steal films “
According to the Constitution, only the legislative part of the government has the powers to ratify trade transactions and, if necessary, limit the flow of goods and services through tariffs. However, there is a release that allows the executive power to intervene in trade when there is a threat to the country’s security.
Trump regularly relied on this exception. In his first 100 days he imposed industry tariffs in addition to the so -called “mutual tariffs” in the countries without seeking the consent of Congress.
"Other countries steal opportunities for making cinemas from the US," speak @Potus.
– Quick Reply 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 5, 2025
"Hollywood is destroyed … If they are not ready to make a movie inside the United States, then we must have a fare for films that are included." pic.twitter.com/g3lxogppmj
“Other countries steal films, opportunities to make films in the US,” Trump told reporters later. “I told a few people” What do you think? “.
The protection of Hollywood from foreign competition can surprise many observers, as this is considered a democratic support, which is often considered by the Mag Trump. But it really took a recent blow.
In the midst of global decline in production and enhancement of competition for film projects, production in the Big Los Angeles-Do most major studios-in the first quarter indicated by 22%Data published last monthby filmla.
The World Trade Organization refused to provide a statement by tellingWealthThis does not comment on the general rule in the politics of its individual members.
Artificial intelligence and point – these are real threats of Hollywood
Whether the tariffs are an effective policy for answering the deeper Hollywood problems and bring in the return of the golden era, remains speculative.
Stephen Wolfe Pereira, a former media director with a Spanish company Univision, called the idea that the US national security threatens the decline of the Bogus film industry.
Moreover, real threats to the industry cannot be found in other countries, but in other places.
“AI today quietly replaces more than 20% of production roles, no matter where the role of the camera, so the real disruption is not geographical, it is actually technological,” – Wolfe Pereira detach Bloomberg television in an interview.
These are also not the only structural faces of the Hollywood wind. Content created by users on social media sites, such as Tiktok, regularly leaves consumer studios.
“The whole increase in digital technology (i) alternative entertainment means,” said Wolfe Pereira, is a much greater threats to the traditional Hollywood ecosystem.
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-05-05 12:12:00
Christiaan Hetzner
