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Donald Trump wants to defend Hollywood industry by establishing new customs duties to counter foreign cinema imported into the United States.
International – The 7th art does not escape it. Just before announcing the reopening of Alcatraz prison, Donald Trump unveiled this Sunday 4 May his intention to“Immediately start the process of establishing customs duties of 100 %” On films broadcast in the United States but produced abroad.
To justify this unexpected approach, the tenant of the White House judged that “The American film industry is dying very quickly” while “Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.” According to him, it is also a “Concerted effort on the part of other nations”representative “A threat to national security” American.
This announcement made on its Truth Social network encourages it also considered “Hollywood and many other regions of the Devastated United States”. Faced with this observation, which still tends a little more commercial relations between the United States and its economic partners, the President of the United States is once again counting on customs duties to rebalance the balance in his sense.
It must be said that since his return to the White House, several investigations on “Effects on national security” Various imports ranging from semiconductors to crucial minerals were launched by Donald Trump. If they are finally imposed by decree, these new customs rights on foreign cinema could open a new era in Hollywood, losing bearings since the COVVI-19 crisis and the unprecedented three-month strike of part of the profession at the end of 2023.
What conditions of application?
But customs duties can only be imposed if it is shown that the volume of importing of films represents a risk to national security. However, no details have yet been given on the conditions for applying surcharge on films produced abroad.
While Donald Trump seemed to have calmed down slightly with his customs duties establishments to rather promote negotiations with the countries targeted, this new climbing in the commercial offensive launched by the American president is not without risk for the American 7th art.
China, against whom Donald Trump guides a good part of his trade war, announced from the beginning of April that it was going to reduce, “Moderately”the number of American films officially broadcast on its territory. By making one of his 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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