>From the Hollywood Fair Trade Campaign press release:
"We are here to tell Mr. Daley and the world that behind the glitz and
glamour of our industry is a factory town in deep distress - a community
of working families and small businesses reeling from the effects of
NAFTA and the very free trade
agreements Mr. Daley has come to Hollywood to promote. The NAFTA
structure
Mr. Daley and the studio heads will be celebrating tonight is the very
system that has removed our jobs to Canada and has taken with them our
health insurance, our pensions, our kid's college funds, and our homes."
marta
Brad De Long wrote:
> What does NAFTA have to do with this?
>
> As far as I know, there were no or minimal tariffs on the import of
> movies or film from Canada before NAFTA.
>
> Canada does have some restrictions that content broadcast in Canada
> must contain a significant "Canadian" portion, and those restrictions
> may or may not fall as a result of NAFTA...
>
> So is there any reason to think that NAFTA has anything to do with
> film production in Canada? There is a reference to "NAFTA-sanctioned
> subsidies" provided by the Canadian government, but surely NAFTA did
> not *create* these subsidies--it only failed to remove them.
>
> Surely the balance of trade is still overwhelming in favor of the
> U.S.: eliminate all international trade in TV, movies, and movie
> production and Hollywood movie employment goes down by at least half.
>
> So where's the beef?
>
> Brad DeLong