{"id":441221,"date":"2010-03-17T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/03\/film-subsidies.html"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:49:13","slug":"film-production-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/441221","title":{"rendered":"Film Production Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/united-states\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15663736\">The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">California has been worrying about \u201crunaway production\u201d since 1998, when Canada began luring producers and their crews away from Los Angeles with tax breaks. Other places followed, and all but seven American states and territories and 24 other countries now offer, or are preparing to offer, rebates, grants or tax credits that cut 20%, 30% or even 40% of the cost of shooting a movie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px\">I&#39;m convinced that some day this battle over film subsidies will turn into a big trade dispute (well, I guess&#0160;I should say <em>bigger<\/em>, as there has already been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftac.net\/html\/301a-2.html\">Section 301 petition<\/a>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1934538020071020\">rejected<\/a>.)&#0160;&#0160;I&#39;m not sure when, though.&#0160; More <a href=\"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2007\/09\/trade-law-goes-.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2009\/08\/filmmaking-subsidies.html\">here<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=ruKANZbUgU0:Www_sHWIyzU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ielpblog\/~4\/ruKANZbUgU0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Economist: California has been worrying about \u201crunaway production\u201d since 1998, when Canada began luring producers and their crews away from Los Angeles with tax breaks. Other places followed, and all but seven American states and territories and 24 other countries now offer, or are preparing to offer, rebates, grants or tax credits that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}