WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday (Aug 12) rejected a “Web-Zero Framework” proposal by the Worldwide Maritime Group (IMO) geared toward reducing greenhouse fuel emissions from international delivery, warning it could retaliate towards international locations 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’ delivery 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 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, power suppliers, delivery firms and their prospects, or vacationers,” the assertion mentioned.
“Our fellow IMO members needs to be on discover that we are going to search for their assist towards this motion and never hesitate to retaliate or discover treatments for our residents ought to this endeavour fail,” it added.
The US, one in every 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.
