The recent Executive Order titled “Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources” marks a definitive rupture in the United States’ approach to global ocean governance. It is not merely a domestic administrative action—it is a declaration. This Executive Order signals that the U.S. government is prepared to bypass international agreements, challenge multilateralism, and unilaterally pursue deep seabed mining (DSM) in areas designated by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as the “common heritage of mankind.” By aligning state power with corporate ambition, this order effectively formalizes what had previously been speculative or tentative behavior—most notably, The Metals Company’s attempt to exploit legal ambiguity—and transforms it into a doctrine of sovereign overreach.

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