Trump & Rubio Prevent UN’s Global Climate Tax on Shipping; “Principled Free Traders” Are Mute About Stopping this Tax on Consumers

Much gratitude to President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for once again putting Americans first, and for also striking another huge blow against the climate hoax and the global “net zero” agenda.

Trump and Rubio not only refused American participation in a proposed “global emissions tax” on shipping that was being pushed by the UN and all the usual globalists, but Trump and Rubio also prevented the proposed tax from being implemented altogether. Team America made it explicitly clear that if the “international community” was going to compel Americans to pay tithes and offerings carbon taxes in service to the apocalyptic climate religion, then the U.S. would impose harsh penalties on those countries voting against us. The international community backed down. As Steve Milloy tweeted about this, “Better than merely not signing a UN climate treaty is punishing countries that do sign. Thank you, President Trump.”

The proposed emissions tax would have increased shipping costs by as much as 10% according to the Trump administration. That is equivalent to a 10% tariff on all goods shipped by ocean carrier.

It’s also noteworthy that the “principled free traders” who incessantly criticize Donald Trump’s America-first tariffs as being a “tax on consumers” are curiously silent about Trump’s success in preventing this global carbon tax from being imposed on shipping. The proposed tax would have been a clear-cut tax on consumers. But as I type this piece on October 19th, I don’t see a single story in National Review crediting President Trump for killing this tax, nor do I see any tweets from the “free traders” I often highlight who incessantly go on Twitter/X to denounce Donald Trump’s tariffs as being a “tax on consumers.” It’s almost as if they are simply America-last globalists who reflexively oppose Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Therefore, when their friends in the “international community” want to impose a tax that hurts Americans, these anti-tariff “free traders” stand down due to their hatred of Trump and his voters.

Or perhaps, they’re actually being consistent. The proposed emissions tax would also be the equivalent of imposing a 10% tariff on U.S. exports. The unilateral free traders who oppose Trump’s import tariffs have always made it clear that they are supportive of foreign trade barriers and tariffs being imposed on U.S. exports, because that helps put Americans out of work in service to offshoring American manufacturing. This emissions tax would have hurt American exports in the same way.

“‘Huge Win’: Trump Admin Delivers Blow to UN Climate Agenda, Derails ‘Ideological’ Global Carbon Tax” [Daily Wire – 10/17/2025]

A global tax on shipping emissions won’t take effect after pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate activist-fueled proposal.

“This is another HUGE win for [Trump],” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “Thanks to his leadership, the United States prevented a massive UN tax hike on American consumers that would have funded progressive climate pet projects. Our country will continue to lead the way and put America FIRST.”

Last week, the Trump administration warned that the tax could increase shipping costs by up to 10% and said that it was considering a number of retaliatory actions for countries that support the measure. These actions included investigating countries pursuing anti-competitive practices, imposing visa restrictions and increasing processing fees, and placing additional port fees and commercial penalties.

Donald Trump correctly called the proposed tax on shipping emissions a “green scam” while threatening retaliatory tariffs on those countries who would try to impose this tax on us:

“Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure” [BBC – 10/17/2025]

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But US President Donald Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they voted in favour of it.

Thank you President Trump and Secretary Rubio for continuing to put America first.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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