WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (Aug 12) rejected a “Web-Zero Framework” proposal by the Worldwide Maritime Group (IMO) geared toward chopping greenhouse fuel emissions from international transport, warning it will retaliate in opposition to nations that help the measure.
The announcement, made in a joint assertion by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Vitality Secretary Chris Wright and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, comes forward of an October vote on the United Nations’ transport company on adopting the plan.
It additionally marks a continuation of the Trump administration’s combative commerce posture, with officers drawing parallels to its tariff actions focusing on China, India and Brazil, in addition to latest withdrawals from climate-related rules.
‘UNEQUIVOCAL’ OPPOSITION
“The Trump Administration unequivocally rejects this proposal earlier than the IMO and won’t tolerate any motion that will increase prices for our residents, vitality suppliers, transport corporations and their prospects, or vacationers,” the assertion mentioned.
“Our fellow IMO members must be on discover that we are going to search for their help in opposition to this motion and never hesitate to retaliate or discover treatments for our residents ought to this endeavour fail,” it added.
The US, certainly one of 176 IMO member states, pulled out of talks on the net-zero framework in April and urged others in a memo to rethink backing the measure.
