The Tariff Wars continue, and besides incoming products from outside the US, President Trump is now looking to put a 100% tariff on movies that weren’t made in the United States, including films from Marvel.
According to Variety, Trump’s announcement planning to put tariffs on movies was met with chaos by non-US producers—specifically from the UK. One producer said, “If this goes the distance, it will decimate the industry. But you can’t just stop production,” and another also shared, “Even unemployed Americans are saying this is nuts — these are people who have genuinely had their careers shattered because of production moving to Europe.”
Though this is expected to be a huge blow to the industry as a whole, some think that this would also particularly hit hard for Marvel Studios, who had recently moved their home base from Atlanta to London—and one of their most anticipated movies—Avengers: Doomsday—is filming in London right now.
Admittedly, some people are just waiting to see if this is some kind of short rant that Trump has; and they are waiting to see something on paper before they start reacting to it. With so much of the industry being about moving productions to other places around the world, a tariff on projects not shot in the US does seem like a major shake-up to the status quo.
With America’s economy already getting tanked, some are hopeful that more action is going to be taken with these tariffs; but for now, all we can really do is just wait and see what happens.
As for Marvel, their latest movie, Thunderbolts* (which wasn’t exclusively shot in the US) is now out in theaters.
