Other laws cover air and land transport. Try taking a Ryanair or Air China flight from New York to San Francisco. Try getting CP Rail to deliver from Florida

Other laws cover air and land transport. Try taking a Ryanair or Air China flight from New York to San Francisco. Try getting CP Rail to deliver from Florida to New York or Bison Transport to deliver from Minneapolis to Houston. The Jones Act covers foreign carriers between US maritime ports. There are indeed problems with it and the amount of investment that the US, as a nation, has invested and retained in building and staffing ships that could be complaint with the Jones Act. It goes both ways - and the problem is not solely with the law.