{"id":68741,"date":"2026-01-29T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/887574926"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:58","slug":"the-daily-view-will-shipping-face-a-chinese-ets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/the-daily-view-will-shipping-face-a-chinese-ets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily View: Will shipping face a Chinese ETS?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A GLOBAL carbon price seems like a distant prospect right now.<\/p>\n

This, shipping industry bosses fear, opens the door to each country implementing its own shipping emissions tax, like the EU has. And of those countries, the most important is China<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But would China actually do it? It has the power, and shipping companies couldn\u2019t dodge it as easily as they could smaller countries.<\/p>\n

But China\u2019s exporters are already under significant pressure from US tariffs. Slapping another cost on their trade would be a tough call for policymakers.<\/p>\n

Taxing your foreign customers\u2019 trade without sharing the proceeds with them is a tough sell.<\/p>\n

Setting up a workable emissions trading system or carbon levy for shipping is not an easy job either, as Brussels has discovered in recent years. A global system really would be best for everyone, hard as that is.<\/p>\n

China is the world\u2019s clean-energy superpower. It hopes to shed dependence on imported fossil fuels, and to corner a market for green ship fuel as soon as the IMO<\/a> creates one.<\/p>\n

But building massive amounts of as-yet speculative production capacity for an uncertain market is still a big gamble. If China is anything in foreign policy, it\u2019s pragmatic.<\/p>\n

When there is a clear business case for green tech (such as batteries<\/a>) China goes all-in, and so leads the world.<\/p>\n

All this doesn\u2019t make a Chinese carbon price on shipping impossible. But it may give risk and compliance managers some respite for now…<\/p>\n

Declan Bush
Senior reporter, Lloyd\u2019s List<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view the latest Lloyd\u2019s List Daily Briefing<\/p>\n

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