After Trump pledged definitions on foreign films, the Canadian film industry says he lost the plot

US President Donald Trump says he wants to impose a 100 percent tariff on films that have been produced outside the country, a step that can destroy the Canadian scene of films – but experts scratch their heads on how this tax works, given how the global filmmaking is tangled.

Trump, in fact, said in a social publication on Sunday evening, that he ordered the US Trade Ministry and commercial representative to “start a process” immediately. He did not sign an executive order, and the White House said on Monday that no final decisions were made.

Trump wrote that other countries “offer all types of incentives to extract filmmakers and studios away from the United States.”

“Hollywood, many other regions within the United States of America,” continued to framing it as national security.

When asked whether he would detect the case during his meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday, Trump replied that Canada was “only one of the many countries” that use tax incentives to attract American films.

He has provided a few details about what the last tablet may require in the customs tariff system, or how it will be implemented-including whether it will affect common products, or films that were fully produced abroad and displayed in the United States, not to mention those that appear in broadcasting and cinematic services.

Greg Dini, a Canadian film producer includes his latest credit traineeThe biography of Trump, which was partially filmed in Toronto, says films are rarely the product of one country.

“We are not creating well here. We are creating a movie. How do you put a tariff on top of that?” He asked. “These are many countries that work together at all times, creating footage and content … it’s not something I really see you can put a tariff.”

The announcement also reprimanded Swift from the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) and the Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Alliance (ACTRA), the Union of Actors.

Prime Minister David IBi described the proposal as “incredibly difficult to understand”, while Doug Ford from Ontario expressed that “something new with Trump every day.

Why do Hollywood go north

Like other parts of its economy, the film industry in Canada is intertwined with the industry of its southern neighbor. Oscar winners Titanicand Revival and Juno They were all partial at least on Canadian soil. Hollymo Del Toro movie makers to Christopher Nolan filmed many films here.

This means that Canada is also vulnerable to crises that arise in Hollywood, such as Gilde, the American book 2023 and Sag-Aftra, which led to a recovery of an industry that still recovers from the closure associated with the epidemic.

Canada is very attractive to American film producers, according to experts. The workforce in the filmmaking is very skilled, but it costs less to pay, and it uses Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Clearian and Halifax frequently as other condemnation in the United States, Europe and Asia. American films production creates 30,000 jobs and has an economic impact of $ 2.6 billion in Toronto alone, according to Mayor Olivia Zhao.

More importantly, the federal government provides 16 percent recovered tax credit, which is used to attract foreign products from Hollywood and other places to Canada.

The provinces also have their own tax incentives, some of which can be coordinated – such as Ontario – with federal credit. Meanwhile, a few months BC announced that it would increase its tax incentives for production, and offer a billion dollar production bonus that is largely spent in the province.

CBC News contacted many of the main US studios for its reaction, but none of them responded. Trump said on Monday that he is meeting with industry to discuss the proposal.

“I am not looking to harm the industry. I want help,” he said. “I want to make sure they are happy to do so because we are all about jobs.”

“The consumer still wants consumption”

Charlie Kiel, a professor at the Institute of Film Studies of the University of Toronto, says that group migration in the American cinema industry from Canada will have a “devastating effect” on the local sector.

But it is difficult to know how a tariff will be imposed like those that Trump proposes, and which films will be applied.

“There is a full spectrum here, between the films that were produced primarily in the United States, but it may have some post -production works that have been accomplished in another country, for the films made by another entire country,” he said.

There is also an issue that will absorb the cost of customs tariffs. After years of high prices and hidden scrap fees, it is possible that a more expensive movie ticket with the fans will not fly, says Keel.

This means that the theater holders will eat the cost themselves or divide them with a distributor, which makes the production itself more expensive. Revenge definitions are complicated by things, given that the global box office is very important for the success of a set of films.

What about the broadcast? For example, Netflix has seen a success with foreign content-being the primary distributor of Osar taxi like Spain Snow community And South Korea Oaka.

Noah Sejal, the co -chair in favor of the Toronto film distributor, says he is unlikely to get the main signs of Trump’s proposal.

“I think they want to get translated content because they know that there are (outlets) that they cannot get American content,” he said.

However, if an American tariff worldwide is imposed on other filmmaking countries, Seagal argues that it may be a blessing of the local industry in Canada.

“If there is less content, the consumer still wants to consume what the consumer wants to consume. Therefore, it may be a great opportunity for Canadian content, Canadian culture and Canadian industry,” he said.