Petition updateExempt Puerto Rico Permanently from the Jones Act Law to rebuild and grow the economy.

Letter to Department of Homeland Security, re: Jones Act

Ivonne HanksWellfleet, MA, United States

Oct 13, 2017

“An individual importing a shipping container of goods from the East Coast of the United States to Puerto Rico can expect to pay almost twice as much as they would, if they are shipping from Jamaica”. Sen. John McCain to Acting Secretary of State, Elaine Duke. https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/505a0fd7-556b-4f61-9783-d04a79cca5ea/mccain-letter-to-dhs-jones-waiver-9-26-17.pdf

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