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Trump decision to waives U.S. cargo restriction to Puerto Rico


A cargo ship in front of a port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria.
Carlos Garcia Rawllins/Reuters

 President Donald Trump waives U.S. shipping cargo restrictions to help hurricane-ravaged in Puerto Rico on Thursday, September 28, 2017. Written from the twitter post of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico and it will go into effect immediately. Responding to a request from Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello, the decision briefly lifts the Jones Act’s to halt foreign-flagged vessels from  grabbing and conveying fuel between U.S. ports. 
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 has left it without power and with little access to fuel and supplies. Due to this prior, the waiver desperately needed to deliver supplies more quickly and at less cost. Nonetheless, waiver was not a prior solution for Puerto Rico seeing that there were enough U.S.-flagged ships accessible to transport goods to the island. Trump administration also mention, “We have a lot of shippers and a lot of people and a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that don’t want the Jones Act lifted.”


Subsequently, there was no need to waive shipping restrictions to help get fuel and supplies to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, because it would do nothing to address the island’s main impediment to shipping, damaged ports. Despite the decision of Trump administration, they should quickly act of any urgencies request on behalf of the Puerto Ricans and help recovery actions. (Barbara Claire) 

Source: 
Associated Press News; accessed Thursday, September 28, 2017
Reuters; accessed Thursday, September 28, 2017
New York Times; accessed Friday, September 29, 2017  

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