Jones Act Concepts

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. · 15 Jan 1987

fleet of vessels produced by its Emergency Fleet Corporation, most of which did not reach the water until well after the war had ended. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 authorized the sale of the ships to American firms on easy terms, including some tax breaks, and provided for subsidies to private operators. It also

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George · 4 Sep 2013 · 402pp · 98,760 words

-flagged ships According to the US Maritime Administration, there are 92 foreign-going US ships and 98 operating under the Jones Act. Properly called the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, but named for Senator Wesley Jones, the Jones Act’s main aim was to protect US shipping and ensure that the United States had enough US-flagged ships to

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American flags. US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, US Water Transportation Statistical Snapshot, February 2011. $1.3 billion a year, Bloomberg Businessweek, editorial, ‘How the Jones Act blocks natural disaster relief’, 1 January 2013. – US fleet has declined by 82 per cent since 1951 ‘Comparison of US and foreign-flag operating costs

Into the Raging Sea

by Rachel Slade · 4 Apr 2018 · 390pp · 109,438 words

Randolph Chapter 7: Collision Course Chapter 8: Hull Number 670 Chapter 9: Afternoon Chapter 10: Captain Michael Davidson Chapter 11: Question Authority? Chapter 12: The Jones Act Chapter 13: Evening Chapter 14: Night Chapter 15: Necesitamos La Mercancía Chapter 16: Dawn Chapter 17: The Raging Sea Chapter 18: We’re Gonna Make

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a rocky ride. He’d show them all that he was a new class of man for a new class of ships. Chapter 12 The Jones Act The two great oceans that lap at America’s shores have shaped our collective consciousness in myriad ways. Moby-Dick may always be the greatest

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, the federal government further defined and regulated its maritime industry, but it wasn’t until the creation of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (commonly known as the Jones Act) that these laws became fully codified. The Jones Act shaped the modern American sailor and the modern American shipper in profound ways. Rooted in the country’s earliest laws

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, the Jones Act is unabashedly protectionist. It shelters domestic shipping from the pressures of the global market by upholding an America-first monopoly. To participate in the US

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time aboard US-registered boats, manned by a twenty-seven-hundred-odd-member seafaring corps, the great majority of them union men and women. The Jones Act also offered American seamen unprecedented rights. Whereas the British navy ran by “Rum, sodomy, and the lash,” quipped Winston Churchill, American seamen were suddenly permitted

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tabloids with antiunion and antimariner messaging. Ronald Reagan, who called the merchant mariners “little children,” worked throughout his tenure to reduce their public benefits. The Jones Act has inherent economic costs: According to the World Economic Forum, banning foreign vessels from carrying cargo between US ports costs Americans at least $200 million

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. Just before being diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer of 2017, Senator John McCain introduced legislation for the umpteenth time to repeal the Jones Act, calling it “an archaic and burdensome law that hinders free trade, stifles the economy, and ultimately harms consumers. The protectionist mentality embodied by the

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Jones Act directly contradicts the lessons we have learned about the benefits of a free and open market.” Defenders of the Jones Act view it as economically and strategically crucial to the American way of life. The

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Jones Act bolsters the domestic maritime industry by guaranteeing buyers for American-made ships and American-trained sailors. These days

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, that’s significant: Ships built stateside can cost twice as much as those manufactured abroad. The creators of the Jones Act recognized these discrepancies and created generous federal tax subsidies to soften the blow. Ultimately, it’s a small price to pay for a standing quasi

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cheaper to register ships in countries that have looser regulations, like Liberia and Panama. Plenty of American-owned ships fly foreign flags to get around Jones Act requirements. This flight among shippers from America’s registers, called “flags of convenience,” is an invitation to anarchy, argues William Langewiesche in the Outlaw Sea

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registered to landlocked nations, which underscores the free-for-all nature of this system and the Wild West nature of the sea. When a non–Jones Act ship goes down, Langewiesche notes, there’s little risk to the customers and shipping companies. The hulls and cargoes are fully insured and actual ownership

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is obfuscated by a rat’s nest of LLCs and shell corporations. With the passing of the Jones Act in the 1920s, Puerto Rico had the potential to become one of the few lucrative runs in the shipping industry: a hungry customer completely dependent

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on imports via Jones Act vessels. But first, the island needed to develop a robust middle class—a new generation of Puerto Rican consumers who were wealthy enough to buy

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for cash, the Puerto Rican government, a major employer of islanders, implemented austerity. But the one thing Puerto Rico couldn’t save money on: ultrahigh Jones Act shipping costs. Like the early American colonists, Puerto Ricans had found themselves at the mercy of the ships. In 2017, that dependency would prove disastrous

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when Hurricane Maria hit the island, wiping out roads, power lines, and houses. Relief supply deliveries were hampered by Jones Act regulations, severely limiting the number of ships permitted to service the beleaguered island. Overnight, the law became national news as media outlets reported on the

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island’s frustratingly slow recovery. The opinion pages were inundated with calls for a repeal of the Jones Act, so much so that President Trump put a temporary ten-day waive on the law to allow international freighters the opportunity to deliver necessary goods

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. But by October of that year, public outrage dissipated, leaving the Jones Act’s grip on Puerto Rico’s economy intact. As of December 2017, the New York Times estimated that at least 1,052 Puerto Ricans had

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ports, sending them to the Persian Gulf during the two wars there, and into the rough Pacific Northwest trade back and forth to Alaska, another Jones Act monopoly. And now it wanted El Faro to carry more cargo to Puerto Rico. In 2003, the company wanted to remove El Faro’s spar

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, Hurricane. See Hurricane Joaquin; Tropical Depression Eleven; Tropical Storm Joaquin Jones, Jackie, 60, 69, 72, 73, 97, 98, 100, 101, 105, 109, 161–66, 178 Jones Act, 140–45, 171 juracánes, 45 Justice Department, US, 175 Katrina, Hurricane. See Hurricane Katrina Keller, Peter, 319–20, 323–27 Kryer, Dennis, 312 Kucharski, Mike

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, 95 media, 267–68 Meklin, Dylan, 180 Melville, Herman, 49, 122 Mendoza, Juan Escalante de, 45–46 Merchant Marine, US, 39, 122, 124, 142 Merchant Marine Act of 1920. See Jones Act Mexico, 53, 144 Miami-Herald, 284 Minouche (ship), 220–27 Mitch, Hurricane, 51 MMA. See Maine Maritime Academy Moby-Dick (Melville), 122, 135 Morison, Samuel

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of, 33, 34–35 Hurricane Irma and, 53–54 Hurricane Maria and, 53–54, 144–45, 351 importance of ships to, 24, 170–71, 297 Jones Act and, 142–45 monopoly on shipping services to, 176 Puerto Rico (ship) (later Northern Lights, then El Faro), 81, 92, 93–94 Pusatere, Frank, 149

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade · 9 Jan 2024 · 392pp · 106,044 words

and sailed by an American-majority crew could move goods from American port to American port. (An updated version of this law, commonly called the Jones Act, is still on the books today.) It’s a tactic China would copy two hundred years later. The United States wouldn’t have survived the

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, Brian, 218 McDonald’s, 206 McGowen, Amy, 221, 223, 252 McNerney, James, 262 McSwane, David, 213 McVeigh, John, 48 Meader, Derek, 201–2, 207–8 Merchant Marine Act of 1920, 204 Merrow company, Fall River, Massachusetts, 244–45, 247 Merrow family, 40, 244 Mestrich, Keith, 287–88 Mexico American oil exported to, 295 American textile

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

by Meredith. Angwin · 18 Oct 2020 · 376pp · 101,759 words

greatly increased LNG delivery, despite difficult winter weather. This positive scenario is dependent on increased LNG deliveries from abroad. That’s because the Jones Act, a section of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, prohibits ships built and registered outside the U.S. from delivering goods between American ports. There are no LNG carriers flying an American

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of, 49–51, 58, 59–63, 145, 322 J Jacobson, Mark Z., 195–196, 216 Jenkins, Jesse, 216 Johnson, Lyndon, 341 Jones, Charles E., 329 Jones Act, 128 journalists, banned from meetings, 104, 107, 283, 363 jump ball filings, 109–113, 115–121 just-in-time, natural gas, 46–47, 74, 122

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

by Kevin Cook · 30 Jan 2023 · 277pp · 86,352 words

of them.” Bonnie took a seat in a row of folding chairs while Jones and church elder Clive Doyle stood up front, under a chandelier. Jones, acting as host and emcee, got things rolling by commanding the podium. Shaking his fist, he said, “Victory is ours! Against the communists and socialists and

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words

of the crime turn all the victims’ families into “limited purpose” public figures? It wouldn’t matter, Bankston said, if the lawyers could prove that Jones acted with malice: that he knew his charges were false and made them anyway, or that he acted with reckless disregard of their truth or falsity

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words

on $0.5 million of net risk. Jones received 20 percent of performance. He invested his own money in the fund. Later, anticipating future developments, Jones acted as an incubator for two employees who left to set up their own funds, and transformed his fund into a fund-of-funds, investing in

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez · 11 Apr 2016 · 532pp · 162,509 words

at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah (Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, 1855), 173–174. 8. Daniel W. Jones acted as interpreter. The quote is from Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians, 151. On this episode, the best source by far is Jones, The Trial

Reamde

by Neal Stephenson · 19 Sep 2011 · 1,318pp · 403,894 words

assess this: we’re sitting in an exposed place up here. Anyone down there in those valleys could see us. What are we waiting for?” Jones acted as if he hadn’t heard this. “Is that Abandon Mountain?” he asked, nodding south. “Yes.” “Roads connect to its opposite side.” “The lower slopes