History Main / LateExportForYou

* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'': South Korea took 18 years to release this film due to its ban on Japanese cultural products that was lifted between 1998 and 2004. However, it wasn't the only country that took that long to release it. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Turkey also didn't release the film until 2007, for completely different reasons.

** ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'': Released in July 1989, released in North America on VHS September 1998, 9 years later.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' series:

** Season 9 of premiered on [=LeTV=] in China in 2015, followed by the premiere of Season 10 one year later, and then followed by season 11 another one year later, and so on. A few years later, seasons 9 and 10 premiered in Malaysia on Astro Xiao Tai Yang in 2020, followed by Season 11 in March of 2021.

* Some countries didn't get ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' until a couple years after its original Indian release. Notably, the USA finally saw an official release through Creator/HBOMax on April 29, 2022, six years after the original release. Around the same time, Cartoon Network US started to air the show on the channel as well.

* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' was, naturally, rather late to release in Japan given its touchy subject matter. They eventually took the plunge in January 2024, to very mixed emotions from Japanese audiences but generally positive reviews.

* Music/{{Muse}}'s 2001 album ''Origin of Symmetry'' wasn't released in the US until 2005 due to a dispute with Maverick Records.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' is this for Australia[=/=]New Zealand with the movie confirmed to be out in the land down under in September 2023 in theaters there, the same month the movie ''will be out on Blu-Ray and [=DVD=] in the US.'' Japan once again ends up getting the movie way late, in 'December 2023', a whopping ''SIX MONTHS'' after the US release... albeit straight to digital, and with InvisibleAdvertising as well.

** Australian fans had to wait until May 5, 2023 — seven months after the show's North American premiere (Oct. 2, 2022) — to watch it on Creator/TheABC network.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' is this for Australia, with the movie confirmed to be out in the land down under in September 2023 in theaters there, the same month the movie ''will be out on Blu-Ray and [=DVD=] in the US.'' Japan once again ends up getting the movie way late, in 'December 2023', a whopping ''SIX MONTHS'' after the US release... albeit straight to digital, and with InvisibleAdvertising as well.

* ''Series/{{LazyTown}}'' didn't air in much of Eastern Europe, including Poland and Russia, until 2008, almost 4 years after it debuted, when Jetix began airing the series in that region.

* Creator/{{Toei|Company}} and Saban finally started releasing ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' in its original form through Creator/ShoutFactory, the same company that released the first 17 seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', after 22 years of not releasing the seasons officially in the United States. Supposedly, the main reason for the long wait was that when Disney got the franchise, another company wanted to license ''Sentai'' for release in the US, but Disney halted that by buying the rights wholesale for distribution of uncut ''Super Sentai'' seasons. Saban didn't have any problem with sublicensing the franchise after they got ''PR'' back, so in 2014, Shout announced the release and first released ''Zyuranger'' in early 2015. However, they have yet to announce plans for the various movies and V-Cinema crossovers and specials. It's stated that they were a separate license from the show proper. 2019 saw the release of ''Jetman'', the first release with no ''Power Rangers'' adaptation, but then there was a hiatus due to Hasbro buying the rights to ''Power Rangers'' from Saban, and ''Super Sentai'' releases wouldn't resume until 2022 with ''Fiveman''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' premiered in the USA in 1981, but never aired in France until Disney+ launched in that country in 2020.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' premiered in Italy in March 2013, 10 years after it was first aired in the United States. By the time it premiered there, ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' had already aired every episode of its first season.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' originally aired in Japan on TX Network (Creator/TVTokyo and its affiliates) in mid-2014, but the show failed to gain traction there initially, and only the first season's dub was completed before the show was temporarily shelved. However, in September 2015, the show was added to Amazon Prime in Japan, and the show's dub was completed there. The dub eventually started airing on TV again on Disney XD from May 2017 to September 2019, with the series finale having already been aired in the United States by the time Season 2's first few episodes had aired on TV in Japan.

* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' got released in Hungary on December 20th, 2012, nearly 4 years after it premiered in the United States.

* The South African government would not allow television service in the country until 1976, because Hendric Verwoerd (the prime minister of South Africa at that time) viewed the television as a threat to the Afrikaans language and the Afrikaner ''volk'', giving unfair prominence to English, and creating unfair competition for the Afrikaans press. This means that some American live-action programmes from the 1960s, such as Creator/{{ABC}} series ''[[Series/Batman1966 Batman]]'' and ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', were not exported into South Africa until between 1976 and 1979.
** Also, some British production companies, as well as British Actor's Equity, [[NoExportForYou refused to sell the programs]] to South Africa's main broadcaster, SABC, in protest of the [[UsefulNotes/{{TheApartheidEra}} apartheid]]. This means that some British television programmes from the 1970s and the 1980s only aired in South Africa during the 1990s, after the Apartheid ended.

* In November 2019, Creator/DisneyPlus launched in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands... and that was it. European countries outside the Netherlands had to wait until about March 2020 to get Disney+, while Mexico and Latin America had to wait until near the end of 2020. This was especially problematic given the hype and coverage of one of its biggest shows, ''Series/TheMandalorian'', in an age of worldwide launches for big new TV shows, and it was especially frustrating for fans who didn't live in one of the five countries where it launched first and took major spoilers in the face on geeky news sites. It was especially weird considering [[SpoiledByTheMerchandise merch that involves spoilers]] of said show (namely, toys and T-shirts of the Asset, who turns out to be a baby of Yoda's species) was available for Christmas 2019 in some of the countries that didn't have Disney+ yet. Some resorted to using [=VPNs=] to get Disney+, others used illegal means, with ''The Mandalorian'' being as pirated as ''Game of Thrones'' [[https://www.wired.com/story/the-mandalorian-is-set-to-become-2019s-most-pirated-show/ in only two months.]] The following year, the delayed implementation of Disney+ caused similar things to ''Film/Mulan2020'', which due to a pandemic was relegated to the streaming service, with the added burden that few countries still had movie theaters open.

** Australian fans had to wait until May 5, 2023 -- seven months after the show's North American premiere (Oct. 2, 2022) -- to watch it on Creator/TheABC network.

* The first season of ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' didn't debut in the UK until March 22nd, after all of it's episodes had already aired from from January 13th 2022 to February 17th in the US.

* [[Creator/ToeiCompany Toei]] and Saban finally started releasing ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' in its original form through Creator/ShoutFactory, the same company that released the first 17 seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', after 22 years of not releasing the seasons officially in the United States. Supposedly, the main reason for the long wait was that when Disney got the franchise, another company wanted to license ''Sentai'' for release in the US, but Disney halted that by buying the rights wholesale for distribution of uncut ''Super Sentai'' seasons. Saban didn't have any problem with sublicensing the franchise after they got ''PR'' back, so in 2014, Shout announced the release and first released ''Zyuranger'' in early 2015. However, they have yet to announce plans for the various movies and V-Cinema crossovers and specials. It's stated that they were a separate license from the show proper. 2019 saw the release of ''Jetman'', the first release with no ''Power Rangers'' adaptation, but then there was a hiatus due to Hasbro buying the rights to ''Power Rangers'' from Saban, and ''Super Sentai'' releases wouldn't resume until 2022 with ''Fiveman''.

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' and ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' both premiered on Brazil in 1984, eleven years after its original Mexican release date of 1973. Many episodes were dubbed over the course of four slots until 1992 in completely random, non-chronological arranging, resulting in some two-parter episodes only having the first or second part aired, and several episodes being included in multiple slots resulting in them having multiple dubs. Until the next official Brazilian dubs for a DVD release of several episodes in 2005, many remained either undubbed or with their dub archived, especially remakes or original versions of episodes that were already airing normally (as the series had an habit of [[FleetingDemographicRule refilming the same stories a few years after the original]], so the network found it redundant to air multiple versions of the same episode and, for decades, cherry-picked a specific version of each one to remain airing regularly). Over the course of the 2000s and 2010s, several episodes were dubbed or finally premiered after their dub having been archived for decades, and it was only in '''2019''' that every common episode of both series had been dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese - and that's not counting the [[MissingEpisode lost episodes]] or the 80s ''Series/{{Chespirito}}'' sketches, which still haven't been dubbed as of now.

* Another infamous example is Music/TheAvalanches’ ''Music/SinceILeftYou'', released in the UK and US in late 2001, nearly a year after its initial Australian release in 2000, because of the sheer number of [[{{Sampling}} samples]] the group had to clear, and the unwillingness of most major labels to get that job done. Luckily, in North America, Creator/SireRecords came to the rescue, and their promotion also helped “Frontier Psychiatrist” become a cult hit in the US.

* Music/JoyDivision's second and final album, ''Music/{{Closer}}'', took nearly an extra year to be officially released in the United States (March 1981 vs. July 1980 in the U.K.); nevertheless, it still made the 1980 ''Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop Critic's Poll as an import. Their debut, ''Music/UnknownPleasures'', had it even worse. It was released in April of 1979 in the U.K. and released in the U.S. in October of 1980. It wasn't even released in the States for what would have been the band's first U.S. tour had frontman Ian Curtis not killed himself the day before the band was due to leave for America. Their posthumous rarities/live double album ''Still'' was released in 1981 in the U.K. and was't released stateside until 1985, off the heels of Music/NewOrder's ''Music/LowLife''.

* Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons made during the era of AnimationAgeGhetto in the United States fall under this trope in Germany and Austria while some other Hanna-Barbera cartoons are outright NoExportForYou. This is because of Hanna-Barbera's inability to recognize Germany and Austria, the two German-speaking countries of Europe, due to MoralGuardians, and also, [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany owing to both countries' history of authoritarianism.]] This meant that ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' (for example) aired in Germany in the 1990s, a ''whopping almost 40 years after its premiere''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' first aired in Germany in 2001, five years after it's premiere.

** Some European countries didn't even recieve the 1987 version of the series until around the time the 2003 series was airing.

* The Indian feed of Nickelodeon didn't premiere ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' until May 18th, 2020, 4 years after it premiered in the United States. And the show isn't airing with a dub, likely due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Likewise, the show finally premiered dubbed on Japanese television after being a sub-only release on April 28, 2021, 5 years after its American premiere, on Nick+ via [=RakutenTV.=]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'' began airing it's first season on October 20th, 2023 on both E4, and Creator/Channel4's streaming service, in the UK, after the season had already finished it's initial airing in the US from July 7th to September 1st.

** In Croatia, the series began airing in November of 2014, more than 4 years after it debuted, and for quite a while aired just the first season (only getting the second one as well in 2017) and initially came with a number of glaring issues (most noticeably the notoriously common audio mixing errors such as [[HongKongDub careless lip-syncing]] and [[BrokenRecord looping various lines of dialogue]]). A second, newer dub of the show eventually came in November 2017, 7 years after the show debuted and 3 years since the original Croatian dub began airing, and first aired only the first season and then announced new episodes from/up to season 4 for April 2020 which was over 2 years since the new dub first aired and several months after the show officially ended in October 2019.

** Similarly, the show first aired in Israel in July 1st, 2003, the same day Nickelodeon launched on the country.

** "Goo Goo Gas" premiered on Nicktoons Africa in January of 2019, 11 years after it aired in almost every part of the world.

** It came to Romaina in 2006, more than 20 years after it's UK debut.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' is this for Australia, with the movie confirmed to be out in the land down under in September 2023 in theaters there, the same month the movie ''will be out on Blu-Ray and [=DVD=] in the US.'' Japan once again ends up getting the movie way late, in ''March 2024'', a whopping ''NINE NONTHS'' after the US release.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' didn't premiere in most European countries until 2005/2006. Although it did air in France in 2004, it aired on TF1, while it's predecessor ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats'' was airing on France 3. This, unless they had seen the ''Rugrats'' special ''All Growed Up'', probably would have made French viewers think that the characters coincidentally had the same names as the ones from ''Rugrats'', not that they were actually the same characters.