Tariffs in the eyes of Americans: Film expert expresses concern over 'movie tariff'
U.S. President Trump recently announced plans to extend the trade war to the film industry. He stated on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he had instructed the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to impose a 100% tariff on all imported foreign-made films. His reasoning is that the U.S. film industry is rapidly declining, while other countries are attracting American film productions overseas by offering various incentives. Trump called this a threat to U.S. national security and called for “making movies again in America.”
In this episode, Mario Pacheco Székely, an American film and television journalist, writer, film studies professor and voting member of the Golden Globe Awards, expresses concern over Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on Hollywood productions filmed abroad. He notes that the film industry has been a product of global collaboration since the 1940s, with international co-productions becoming the norm, from Europe to Asia, from Latin America to New Zealand.
As Székelysays: “We need people from different parts of the world, with different experiences, accents, colors of the skin, and even different ways to cook or build, to truly tell global stories.”
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