Hawaii and other American territories called for changes to the Jones Act, citing unfair economic burdens outside the continental United States.
At the Future of Supply Chain event, the Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy lays out the case for measuring wealth in terms of hours of labor needed to buy goods and services.
Vessel group alleges “lucrative cost advantage” over American-flagged ships.
The Cato Institute has published a report that contends the Jones Act hurts, instead of benefiting, the U.S. Merchant Marine.
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of John McCown and not American Shipper or FreightWaves. The Cato Institute took issue with my recent commentary on the flaws in a 40-page study by a consultant concluding that container rates to Puerto Rico would decline 88.9% if there were no Jones Act. In […]
A Cato Institute trade policy analyst and the president of the Hawaii Shippers Council respond to an editorial written by a Jones Act supporter.
Infrastructure hearings and a controversial waiver have lawmakers taking sides on the Jones Act debate.
The Jones Act has proved itself costly and irrelevant to the U.S. for long enough. Unfortunately, it will take more than an “act of God” to change the law. It will take an act of Congress.
The Trump administration has proposed less federal spending as part of his $1 trillion infrastructure investment outline. In a recent Tax and Budget Bulletin, the Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards lays out the argument for why Trump’s approach to less federal spending is the proper approach to building world-class infrastructure.
