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4 Mar 2021
When someone asks me to explain the Jones Act
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Christian Pulisic could do something incredible tonight 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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SEBASTIAN BERHALTER REPLACES CHRISTIAN PULISIC AT HALFTIME FOR THE USMNT.
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Colin Grabow retweeted
Jun 12
Goal of the Jones Act: national security resilience, economic self-sufficiency, maritime labor force.
Reality of the Jones Act: Tiny non-defense shipbuilding industry and labor force that is irrelevant to wartime logistics. Higher prices on intermediate and consumer goods.
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China watch: the number of Chinese-flagged/linked movements under the Jones Act waiver continues to hold steady at 1/11. As the overall number of movements has increased, this means the percentage of China/Hong Kong-linked movements has fallen from 11% to 10%:
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US and ally/partner ships continue to dominate the waiver movements:
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Jun 12
Jones Act waiver tracker update — now up to 109 voyages. And some very interesting new developments!
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No records of jet moving by water from the East Coast to the West Coast before: eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHa…
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Diesel from Georgia to Puerto Rico — haven't seen that one before:
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Colin Grabow retweeted
Jun 12
Congressional Democrats should simply not do this
The Jones Act is the bedrock of the U.S. maritime and shipping industry.
@TransportDems are protecting American-made ships and jobs as costs continue to rise from the Administration’s war with Iran.
Community note
The U.S. ship building industry is “near collapse” according to the GAO, despite the Jones Act being in place since 1920.
Today, U.S. ships cost 5x as much as foreign ships.
U.S. flagged commercial ships declined 94% from 1960-2025, while the global fleet doubled.
gao.gov/assets/gao-25-…
nytimes.com/2025/05/27/bus…
maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.do…?
kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/the-jo…
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Don't think I'd fly Aeroflot though, and would instead prefer one of the numerous other foreign airlines that dominate the Skytrax top 100 (not a single US carrier in the top 20):
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In 2018, @USCG pegged the cost of the three-ship Polar Security Cutter (heavy icebreakers) program at $3.46 billion. Now $3.4 billion is the estimated program cost of just the lead vessel alone. And it is slated for delivery nine years late.
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to spend at least $55 billion to buy ships, technology systems, and more.
Our new report looks at how staffing and oversight changes may affect these major purchases: gao.gov/products/GAO-26-1081…
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From a 2022 paper: cato.org/policy-analysis/sel…. Had Finland been awarded a contract to build the ships, we'd probably have them by now and at much lower cost.
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Colin Grabow retweeted
Jun 12
Every pol marching in Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade should be asked whether he or she supports the Jones Act, the US law that ordinarily prevents PR from getting fuel, food or other goods from the mainland unless it's on one of a handful of US ships. #SinkTheJonesAct
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.@CatoInstitute's Jones Act waiver tracker shows the number of movements/voyages has now crossed the 100 mark.
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.@SecretaryWright on the Jones Act waiver: "[California gets] refined gasoline from Asian nations that comes on cargos all the way across the Pacific Ocean...But now they're getting those products from the states of Texas and Louisiana, American sources, cleaner and lower cost."
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