>>1952739Picrel could have answered your question
>hating on the Jones ActThe Jones Act has a negligible effect on your cost of goods. It's primary purpose is for national security, to ensure that the US can always import and export necessary commodities and so that sealift is available for the military in times of war. Most maritime powers have cabotage laws for those purposes, the US is not a special exception. Our problem is more that DOTMARAD and the DOT don't do their jobs with regards to ensuring shipyards and infrastructure to build US commercial vessels stay open and making ships, leaving us at the mercy of China's massive shipbuilding industry.
