[seanmcdirmid]

Is Puerto Rico getting its supplies from the USA or from foreign countries? If the latter, the Jones act doesn’t apply. This much more of a problem for Hawaii, since it is much farther away from foreign ports and shipping costs are much more substantial.

[anonymous-panda]

> Under the Jones Act, any ship carrying cargo and traveling between ports in the United States, or to the United States from a foreign country, has to be built in America and owned by an American

https://time.com/4961159/what-is-jones-act-puerto-rico/

Yes it also applies to Hawaii:

> Hawaii and Puerto Rico share many similarities. Among those is the devastating effect on island economies of the Jones Act, which prohibits international vessels from carrying cargo between U.S. ports.

https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2022/08/how-the-jones-act...

The problem is that shipping is the only way to deliver lots of goods to Hawaii and Puerto Rico (origin of shipment doesn’t really matter here). Other states have terrestrial borders and thus don’t care as much.