Vol. 41, No. 18
12/01/2025
Globalist UN Shipping Tax Fails
AT A GLANCE
• The UN carbon tax on shipping was stopped by the Trump administration.
• The UN will try again in a year.
• Other global taxes are planned.
• The UN is also trying to set a global minimum tax and other tax standards.
In a stunning turn of events, the UN’s plan to institute the first-ever global tax, only recently portrayed as all but inevitable, has been scuttled by the Trump administration. For several years now, the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) — the body that regulates international shipping — has been pushing for a tax to be levied on shipping companies for supposed excessive carbon emissions, to be collected by the United Nations and redistributed as the global body sees fit, in the name of climate equity.
Billed as a necessary expedient to help bring about global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the new global carbon tax was widely expected to be adopted at October’s IMO London summit, in spite of vocal opposition from the Trump administration and from President Donald Trump personally. It would have become the very first bona fide global tax imposed by the United Nations, and would have provided for the first time a stream of revenue independent of contributions by member states.
It is impossible to overstate the significance of this event, even if the legacy media’s coverage is muted: If the IMO had been successful in enacting the new carbon tax, the United Nations would have had, for the first time in its history, the power to levy taxes.
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