Australia’s delayed streaming regulations must be brought in with urgency, the country’s producers’ body has warned, amid the ongoing global chaos brought about by President Donald Trump‘s international trade tariffs.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has released findings from a recent member survey highlighting the country’s tough commissioning environment and fears over the delayed streaming levies.
“A high proportion of SPA’s screen-producing members surveyed are telling us that their businesses have been significantly and badly impacted by the delayed local content rules,” said SPA CEO Matthew Deaner.
Though the survey was commissioned before Trump revealed his wide-ranging tariffs on goods exported from most countries around the world (including Australia, which was hit with a baseline 10%), the introduction of content obligations on U.S.-based streamers will not go down well with the administration or the Motion Picture Association, which has been arguing against them.
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