The Disposition of the United States Merchant Marine

1945 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Rodman Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Merchant Marine

The Economic Value of the United States Merchant Marine.

1962 ◽  
Vol 57 (300) ◽  
pp. 940
Author(s):  
Daniel Marx ◽  
Allen R. Ferguson ◽  
Eugene M. Lerner ◽  
John S. McGee ◽  
Walter Y. Oi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
The United States ◽  
Merchant Marine

By Ship—The Salt of the Sea Not Withstanding

1963 ◽  
Vol 345 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
John M. Will
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Merchant Marine ◽  
Competitive Disadvantage ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Function ◽  
American Flag

Years of constant study and controversy have always reaffirmed our national policy that a strong merchant marine is essential for economic and defense reasons. Yet, the status of the United States Merchant Marine today is continuing to be debated pro and con. High labor and construction costs place American maritime operators at an economic disadvantage, and political and nationalistic factors place them at a competitive disadvantage. Labor problems, marked by struggles between competing unions and accentuated by the advent of automation, create serious difficulties. With the heterogeneous nature of the industry ignored or misunderstood, the importance and function of essential portions of the United States merchant fleet are often distorted. As a matter of practice, foreign businessmen use their national ships to a greater degree than American shippers. The competitive position of the American operator is also affected by omnipresent government regulation. The increased dependence of the United States upon world trade, however, and the need to achieve a more favorable balance of payments have created a national awareness of the essentiality of an American-flag merchant fleet. This will help to create the atmosphere in business, government, and labor necessary for the solution of present problems and the achievement of a more effective national maritime policy.

The Jones Act and the Denunciation of Treaties

1921 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse S. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Merchant Marine ◽  
The Right

Section 34 of the Merchant Marine Act, commonly called the Jones Act, approved by the President, June 5, 1920, is as follows: In the judgment of Congress, articles or provisions in treaties or conventions to which the United States is a party, which restrict the right of the United States to impose discriminating customs duties on imports entering the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States, and which also restrict the right of the United States to impose discriminatory tonnage dues on foreign vessels and on vessels of the United States entering the United States should be terminated, and the President is hereby authorized and directed within ninety days after this Act becomes law to give notice to the several governments, respectively, parties to such treaties or conventions, that so much thereof as imposes any such restriction on the United States will terminate on the expiration of such periods as may be required for the giving of such notice by the provisions of such treaties or conventions.

The Pan-American Financial Conferences and the Inter-American High Commission

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-355
Author(s):  
John Bassett Moore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Finance ◽  
Banking System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Great War ◽  
Merchant Marine ◽  
The World ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Great War

On March 12, 1915, while the Great War, daily increasing in intensity, was drawing the world more and more into its vortex, the American Governments were, in the name of the President of the United States, invited to send delegates to a conference with the Secretary of the Treasury, at Washington, with a view to establish “closer and more satisfactory financial relations between the American Republics.” To this end it was intimated that the conference would discuss not only problems of banking, but also problems of transportation and of commerce. It thus came about that there assembled in Washington on Monday, May 24, 1915, under the chairmanship of the Honorable William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, the first Pan-American Financial Conference.The subjects submitted to the conference embraced public finance, the monetary situation, the existing banking system, the financing of public improvements and of private enterprises, the extension of inter-American markets, the merchant marine and improved facilities of transportation. It was a program that went beyond the emergencies growing out of the war; and the conference in its deliberations did not confine itself to the adoption of temporary devices. On the contrary, it sought to meet a permanent need by establishing an organization which should devote itself to the carrying out of a task whose importance was not to be measured by temporary conditions, whether of war or of peace.

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