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06 September 2019
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses why President Trump should grant Puerto Rico's request for a waiver from the Jones Act, a World War I era law that requires movement of goods by water between points in the United States only by means of vessels that are U.S.-built, U.S.-owned and U.S.-crewed, and the impact such a waiver could have on Puerto Rico's struggling economy.
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