President Donald Trump announced on Sunday “Immediately start the process of establishing customs duties of 100%“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 on his Trum Social network Mr. Trump.”Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from the United States“He said. 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 “National security effects“Various imports ranging from semiconductors to crucial minerals. This survey is a necessary first step which could allow the American president to publish a decree imposing customs duties on these products if their import volume represents a risk for national security. No precision has for the moment been given on the conditions of application of surcharge on the 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. 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.
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