The Navigation Acts and the U.S. Jones Act of 1920 offer a historical and modern comparison between policies designed to cultivate domestic maritime industry. The discussion asks whether other countries have used similar rules to support their own shipping capacity. Decades of globalization made it normal to move goods under whatever flag was commercially convenient. Onshoring, deglobalization, and renewed interest in self-sufficiency may reverse some of those assumptions. The question is whether a state can accept dependence on another country's ships when access to sea transport becomes strategically contested.
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The Jones Act and domestic maritime capacity
The U.S. Jones Act provides a modern comparison for policies intended to sustain domestic shipping, shipbuilding, and control over sea transport.