Biden reaffirms support for Jones Act with ‘Buy American’ executive order
‘The President will continue to be a strong advocate for the Jones Act and its mandate that only US-flag vessels carry cargo between US ports, which supports American production and America’s workers’, the White House said
President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, last week affirmed his support for the Jones Act, saying it is ‘so important to a maritime industry that creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and the shipbuilding industry here in the US’