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To: Alberta's Child
why prohibit a foreign-flagged freighter from operating between Los Angeles and Honolulu if the vessel is already permitted to sail from Singapore to Honolulu or from South Korea to Los Angeles?

The easy get-around on that one is that foreign vessels need only get those permissions, then transport goods between US Pacific ports, so long as they make a quick stop in Vancouver or Tijuana for a day in between. In the Atlantic and the Gulf, they can make quick 24 pit stops in any Caribbean country. In short, your revision would gut the entire law, and American shipping companies would be ravaged.

The next debate then is whether this would be an overall net gain (lower prices) or net loss (lost jobs and possibly a lost industry) for America.

35 posted on 07/21/2017 11:48:56 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

Passenger ships may do that, but major freight vessel operators wouldn’t alter their schedules like that just to accommodate a relatively small volume of cargo to Hawaii or Alaska.


41 posted on 07/21/2017 12:29:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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