On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced his last tariff goal: cinema. The fast approach and Loose of Trump to the commercial war has already caused chain effects in all from Portable games to Board games industryBut his last announcement is the most direct attempt to put a finger on entertainment.
“The film industry in America is dying a very fast death,” Trump wrote Social truth. “Other countries offer all types of incentives to remove our filmmakers and studies from the United States. Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are devastated. This is an effort concerted by other nations and, therefore, a national security threat. Tariffs on all films that arrive in our country that are produced in foreign lands.
It is absolutely not clear what a 100% rate in imported films – or in the films that are even partially produced in other countries – means in a practical sense, nor how the president would implement such a large directive. But you could imagine important implications based on the way Hollywood currently operates, since studies are based on financial incentives from all over the world to feed the main productions and regularly import international films to support the release calendar.
Polygon contacted the commercial representative of the United States and the Department of Commerce for clarifications, but the office representatives did not immediately return a request for comment.
The production of Hollywood has been of particular interest in the president since he entered in office for his second term. In January, Trump appointed Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson actors like “Special Ambassadors” In Hollywood to decipher what was apparently wrong in business. Second ExpirationVoight took the title seriously and recently met with artistic studies and guilds to better understand the problems that afflict production. The potential of a national incentive to report more production in the United States is a rare bipartisan question in the sector, at least on the surface; Ever since the fires sweeping the Los Angeles area at the beginning of 2025, Many in the film sector gathered The government of California and National to the incentive studies to shoot local.
But the “100% rate on all films coming in our country” of Trump immediately aroused concern from the whole sector, which is based on the international scene to feed production, post-production and sales. Like one The manufacturer said itWhat does the tariff for the imminent Cannes Film Festival, in which hundreds of projects will seek international funds and agreements for global distribution? It’s all a great stranger.
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