U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on all films produced in other countries. He said the American movie industry is “dying a very fast death” and blamed other countries for offering benefits to attract U.S. filmmakers and studios away from America.

“Other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood and many other areas within the USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other nations and, therefore, a national security threat,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

He added, “It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I am authorising the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN.”

Soon after the announcement, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted on X, saying they were “on it”.

It is still unclear if the new tariff will affect all foreign production companies or also American studios that produce movies outside the U.S.

This decision comes nearly a month after China announced it would “moderately reduce” the number of U.S. films allowed in the country. This move followed Trump’s earlier decision to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 125%.

China's film administration responded by saying, “The wrong action of the US government's indiscriminate tariffs on China is bound to further reduce the favourable impression of domestic audiences on American films.”

Donald Trump has also paused tariffs on other countries until July, but the trade war with China continues.

 

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