It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act

Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by sokoloff on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:17PM (#33264355)

Then why is Puerto Rico complaining that the Jones Act is causing high prices in Puerto Rico for foreign-sourced goods? Are those complaints just invalid / based on a completely wrong premise?

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Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by matthewowen on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:35PM (#33264618)

I think the generous claim would be that given that Puerto Rico has a manufacturing dominated economy, if foreign flagged vessels could pick up goods there and take them on to the USA, they would be more likely to build routes that included them. Eg you could go through the Panama Canal, stop in PR to drop off goods from Asia and pick up goods from PR, and then continue on to Savannah/Charleston/Newark.

I'm personally skeptical of that.

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Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by SaltySolomon on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:48PM (#33264782)

Because if they 'import' things like food or an amazon package from the mainland they can only use Jones Act vessels which drives the costs up crazy.

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