How the Jones Act Blocks Natural Disaster Relief: View
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Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- To get gasoline flowing in the NewYork area after Hurricane Sandy, President Barack Obamatemporarily suspended the Jones Act, a statutory relic of thepost-World War I era that bars foreign ships from carryingfreight between U.S. ports.