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Shipyards, refiners disagree with extension of Jones Act waiver

(The Center Square) — U.S. President Donald Trump extended a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, a 106-year-old law that limits shipments of goods between American ports to domestically built vessels, but the middle-ground compromise dissatisfied both Gulf Coast oil refiners and the nation’s shipbuilders.

The extension replaces broad exemptions from Jones Act laws ordered by President Trump in March…

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