Donald Trump announced Sunday, May 4, wanting to set up 100 % customs duties on films broadcast in the United States but produced abroad. “The American film industry is dying very quickly (…) Hollywood and many other regions of the United States are devastated ”justified the American president on his Truth Social network, saying “Immediately start the process of establishing customs duties of 100 %”.
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“Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from the United States”he assured. According to him, it is a “Concerted effort on the part of other nations”representative “A threat to national security”.
Donald Trump has opened several investigations to the White House since his return to the White House “Effects on national security” Of various imports ranging from semiconductors to crucial minerals.
This survey is a necessary first step which could allow the American president to publish an imposing decree of customs duties on these products, if it is shown that their import volume represents a risk to national security.
China, the second cinema market in the world
No details have yet been given on the conditions for applying surcharge on films produced abroad. This is a new escalation in the commercial offensive launched by the American president against the economic partners of the United States.
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China, against whom Donald Trump concentrates a large part of his arrows, announced in early April that it was going to reduce, “Moderately”the number of American films officially broadcast on its territory, one of its responses to the prohibitive customs duties imposed by the United States on its products.
Beijing limits, by a system of quotas, the number of foreign films officially broadcast in its cinemas. A reduction in access to this market, the second in the world behind the United States for cinema, could cut the recipes of Hollywood studios.
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