“We want movies made in America,” Donald Trump wrote on Monday on his social social network on Monday. After the taxation of 20 % customs duties on products imported from Canada, the American president announced “immediately start the process of instructing customs duties by 100 %” on films produced abroad and broadcast in the United States.
“Hollywood and many other regions of the United States are devastated,” says Donald Trump, who denounces foreign competition that would offer “all kinds of incentives to attract filmmakers and studios away from the United States”. The American president evokes a “concerted effort on the part of other nations”, which according to him represents “a threat to national security”.
To read: Morocco expects a lot from Donald Trump
In the first quarter of 2025, filming (films and television series combined) in Los Angeles recorded a drop of 22 % compared to the same period of the previous year. Between 2014 and 2024, a record drop of 40 % was noted, relays France TV Info. For example, the Odyssey, the next British film Christopher Nolan, was shot in Morocco and Europe. The same is true for the series The Last of Us, shot in Canada.
For the moment, the conditions for implementing this 100 % tax on films produced abroad are still blurred. Would the tax be applied to the distribution of foreign productions in American rooms and platforms or to filming abroad? Relations between Hollywood and the White House have been tense since the arrival of the Republican, most American actors supporting the Democratic Party.
Related news :