...Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1 920 (46 USC E83) prohibiting the transportation of merchandise between points in the United States. including Districts,...Territories, and possessions thereof embraced within the cuastw/iss laws, in am, other vessels than a vessel built in and documented under the laws of the United...

...collector or other proper officer of customs. SECTION 27 OF THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT OF 1920 SEC. 27. That no merchandise shall be transported by water, or by...land and water, on penalty of forfeiture [thereof] of tlie merchandise (or a monetary amount iip to the value thereof as determined by the Secretary of...

...domestic trade.20 The key provision of the act states: No merchandise shall be transported by water . . . between points in the United States, including Districts,...possessions thereof embraced within the coastwise laws ... in any other vessel than a vessel built in and documented under the laws of the United States and...

...Merchant Marine Act. Congress and the President accepted the Jones Act, which provides in part: "That no merchandise shall be transported by water or by...coastwise laws, either directly or via a foreign port, for any part of the transportation, in any other vessel than a vessel built in and documented under...

...-13No merchandise shall be transported by water, or by land and water, ... between points in the US ... either directly or via a foreign port or for any part...vessel built in and documented under the laws of the US and owned by persons who are citizens of the US... Since US flag vessels are significantly more...

...merchandise between points in United States in other than dornesfic-buiJt or rebuilt and documented vessels No merchandise shall be transported by water, or by...of forfeiture thereof, between points in the United Stales, including Districts, Territories, and possessions thereof erabraced -within the coastwise laws,...

...by the amount of the gain from such sale exempt from taxation under this paragraph. SEC. 27. l That no merchandise shall be transported by water, or by land and water, on penalty of forfeiture of the merchandise (or a monetary amount up to the value thereof as determined by the Secretary of...

...(1956). 3162. 11/ Section 883 of title i.6 USC provides, with certain exceptions; "No merchandise »hall be transported by water, or by land and water, on...embraced within the coastwise laws, either directly or vis a foreign port, or for any part of the transportation in any other vessel than a vessel built in...

...his goal of strengthening and protecting the US merchant marine. He crafted language providing that "no merchandise shall be transported by water or by...United States, including districts, territories and the possessions thereof embraced within the coastwise laws, either directly or via a foreign port,...

...the transportation of merchandise by water, or by land and water, between points in the United States embraced within the coastwise laws, either directly...port, or for any part of the transportation, in any vesel other than a vessel built in, documented under the laws of, and owned by citizens of the United...