This article originally appeared on theDaily Caller News Foundationand was republished with permission.
In five months, the United Nations will try again to imposethe world’s first global carbon tax— and American families will pay the bill if Washington isn’t ready.
The vote at the International Maritime Organization (IMO)returnsin October 2026. The same scheme, the sameUN-administered fund, the same transfer of American wealth to international bureaucrats accountable to no voter anywhere. The European Union is already regrouping. Small island nations are already lining up with their hands out. The clock is ticking.
This fight should already be over. Last October, the Trump administrationstared downthe IMO and killed — at least temporarily — what would have been the first global carbon tax on any industry. Secretaries Marco Rubio, Chris Wright and Sean Duffy issued a joint statement threatening visa restrictions, port fees and sanctions on any country that voted yes. The IMO blinked. Member states voted 57 to 49 to postpone for a year.
President Donald Trump called theproposalthe “Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping.” He was right.
But postponed is not killed. The vote returns this October, and the EU is pressing hard to resurrect the levy. Washington needs to be ready to fight it again — and this time finish the job.
Here is what the IMO is preparing to vote on. Ships would pay a carbon penalty of$100 to $380 per metric tonof excess CO₂. The revenue — projected at$11 to $13 billion per year— flows into aUN-administered Net-Zero Fund. Officially it’s for “green fuels” and “just transitions.”
In practice, it is a permanent revenue stream for the same international agencies that have held decades of climate summits while global emissions have continued to rise, with a well-documented history of incompetence, graft and waste.
Small island nations and developing countries are already lining up with their hands out, seeing the levy not as a tool to cut emissions but as a fresh source of climate reparations. The fund’s architects have promised the lion’s share will flow to the poorest states for “capacity building” — diplomatic language for a wealth transfer on a global scale, administered by bureaucrats who answer to no voter anywhere.
Meanwhile, American families get stuck with the bill. Higher shipping costs don’t stay at sea. They flowstraight into the priceof every imported good: clothes, electronics, medicine, car parts, food. The Trump administration’s own analysis warned shippingcosts could jump 10%or more.
Source: The Vigilant Fox
