WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (Aug 12) rejected a “Web-Zero Framework” proposal by the Worldwide Maritime Group (IMO) aimed toward reducing greenhouse gasoline emissions from international transport, warning it might retaliate in opposition to nations that assist 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 current withdrawals from climate-related laws.
‘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 firms and their prospects, or vacationers,” the assertion mentioned.
“Our fellow IMO members ought to be on discover that we’ll search for their assist in opposition to this motion and never hesitate to retaliate or discover cures 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.
