Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics
White House Extends Jones Act Waiver in Longest Suspension in Law’s History
What the source reported
Source-reportedPresident Donald Trump has extended for 90 days a waiver allowing foreign-flagged ships to transport oil and other commodities between U.S. ports, but imposed new limits after shipbuilders and their allies in Congress argued the policy was undermining the domestic maritime industry, the White House said.
- Publication
- gCaptain · Trade Publication
- Published
- 10th August 2026
- Original report
- gcaptain.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Geography
- United States
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 10th August 2026 · 21:45
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Low (14.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth