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U.S. President Donald Trump granted a 90-day hold to a shipping waiver that makes it easier to determination oil, substance and fertilizer astir the United States, the White House said connected Friday (April 24, 2026), the latest effort to curb rising vigor costs linked to the war with Iran. The determination adds roughly 3 months to the existing waiver that was acceptable to expire connected May 17, enabling foreign-flagged vessels to determination commodities betwixt U.S. ports done mid-August.
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers confirmed connected Friday (April 24, 2026) that Mr. Trump had issued the extension. “This waiver extension provides some certainty and stableness for the U.S. and global economies,” Ms. Rogers said. The Jones Act has agelong been a flashpoint between competing economical and nationalist information priorities. Supporters, including U.S. shipbuilders, maritime unions and immoderate lawmakers, reason the instrumentality is captious to maintaining a home shipping manufacture and merchant marine that tin enactment subject logistics and nationalist security.
