"The federal government has vowed to fight a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films after the US president, Donald Trump, posted on his social media platform that he planned to go ahead with the huge levy on any and all movies made outside the United States. Industry experts have described the proposal as bizarre and virtually impossible to enforce, given the global nature of film, with production, financing and post-production often spread across several countries."
"Dr Ben Eltham, a media and communications academic at Monash University and the co-founder of the campaign coalition Save Our Arts, described the Trump tariff as bizarre. Nobody knows how this would work, he said, noting that films are typically classified as intellectual property and part of the global services trade, an area where the US usually runs a surplus. It's a service, not a good. Movies are distributed digitally, streamed online, edited across borders. What counts as foreign-made?"
The Australian government has vowed to oppose a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films announced by the US president. Industry experts describe the proposal as bizarre and nearly impossible to enforce because film production, financing and post-production often span multiple countries. The arts minister said the government is working with Screen Australia and monitoring the US situation closely, promising to defend the Australian screen industry's rights. Screen Producers Australia said the announcement raised practical questions about implementation, noting deep integration with US productions through locations, financing and creative collaboration. Academics emphasized that films are intellectual property and part of the global services trade, complicating any goods-based tariff.
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