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    What is the Jones Act, and why does Puerto Rico want it gone?

    by By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Sep 27, 2017 3 minutes

    Hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico is asking the White House for any help it can get.

    But there's at least one request the Trump administration hasn't granted Puerto Rico: the suspension of a 97-year-old maritime law that says shipping between ports in the United States must be done by U.S.-owned, U.S.-flagged and U.S.-built ships operated by U.S. citizens.

    Meet the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 - more popularly known as the Jones Act - which was championed at the time with nationalist rhetoric that was remarkably similar to President Donald Trump's.

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