New Delhi:
President Donald Trump on Monday introduced a 100 per cent tariff on movies produced abroad, saying the film trade within the US was “dying a really quick demise”.
“Different nations are providing all types of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from america. Hollywood, and lots of different areas throughout the USA, are being devastated. This can be a concerted effort by different nations and, subsequently, a Nationwide Safety risk,” he posted on Reality Social.
“It’s, along with the whole lot else, messaging and propaganda. Subsequently, I’m authorizing the Division of Commerce, and america Commerce Consultant, to right away start the method of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all motion pictures coming into our nation which are produced in overseas lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN,” Trump added.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote on X that they had been “on it”.
We’re on it. https://t.co/r5zCLxZrem
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) Could 4, 2025
It was not instantly clear whether or not the tariff would goal manufacturing corporations, overseas or American, producing movies abroad.
Trump’s transfer comes practically a month after China mentioned it could “reasonably scale back” the variety of US movies it imported into the nation, amid a commerce conflict between the world’s two largest economies.
“The mistaken motion of the US authorities’s indiscriminate tariffs on China is sure to additional scale back the beneficial impression of home audiences on American movies,” a press release from China’s movie administration mentioned on April 10 after Trump raised tariffs on Chinese language items to 125 per cent.
Trump, since returning to the White Home in January, has triggered a commerce conflict with China and imposed world tariffs which have roiled markets.
Barring China, he has introduced a pause on his sweeping tariffs imposed on dozens of nations until July.