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What happens to Hollywood if Trump targets movies made abroad
Business Insider
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5/8/2025
President Donald Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US. But what does that mean for Hollywood? We break it down.
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If they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States then we should
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have a tariff on movies that come in. So that's the latest in the tariff wars.
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President Donald Trump plans to impose a 100% tariff on movies made outside the
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US. Trump didn't specify how the tariff would be implemented or when it would go
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into effect but experts are anticipating negative impacts on an already hard hit
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Hollywood. There are a lot of reasons why US production has left the United
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States. Most of them have to just do with money. It's become very expensive to shoot
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in the United States and the US doesn't have national tax breaks the way some of
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their countries do. Probably prices will go up so either fewer movies will get
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made or the movies that get made will be more expensive so it'll be more
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expensive to go to the movies. Tickets will go up and then probably fewer people
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go to the movies. One of the impacts it could have is that people look to produce
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European productions in Europe without the United States at all. Doing them in
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English, doing them maybe with American talent but making them entirely European
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productions for Europe and almost exclude the United States entirely. The whole movie
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industry at the moment is in a crisis already. We had COVID which had a huge
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impact on movie going. We had dual strikes. If we add on top of that extra costs of
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production or these tariffs it could really have disastrous effect on the industry. I
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really don't see anything positive coming from this. Donald Trump has said he's
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only referred to movies in his statements about tariffs but it's not
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clear that he's going to exclude Netflix productions. So is Squid Game, a Korean
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production, going to have tariffs applied to it and will Netflix have to
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pull it from its US service or charge American viewers more to watch Squid Game or
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The Crown or Money Heist or all these other international productions that
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streamers produce outside the United States. Yeah the timing coming just ahead of the
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Cannes Film Festival means that's all anyone's going to be talking about. We
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were hoping to talk about the films and the stars and the glamour but everyone's
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going to be talking about Trump and tariffs and the impact of this on the
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independent film industry. So maybe that was Trump's plan. Now he'll be the talk of
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the town in Cannes and not Tom Cruise.
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