Donald Trump Says He’s Pursuing 100% Tariffs On Movies Produced Outside U.S., Calling Runaway Production A “National Security Threat” https://t.co/ai8VKv6gev
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Donald Trump said that he is ordering the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department to begin the process to impose a 100% tariff on imports of movies that are produced in “foreign lands.”
Trump later told reporters, “Other nations have been stealing the … movie-making capability of the United States. I said to a couple of people, ‘What do you think?’ I have done some very strong research over the last week, and we are making very few movies now. Hollywood is being destroyed. Now you have a grossly incompetent governor that allowed that to happen, so I am not just blaming other nations, but other nations, a lot of them, have stolen our movie industry. If they are not willing to make a movie inside the United States, and we should have a tariff on movies that come in. And not only that, governments are actually giving big money. They are supporting them financially. So that is sort of a threat to our country in a sense.”
Hollywood projects currently shooting overseas include:
• ‘Avengers: Doomsday’• ‘The Odyssey’• ‘Avatar 4’ • ‘Supergirl’
