Some while ago I posted a short series about the trading patterns of various companies. One of the points I recall making was the fact that the USA wouldn't allow any ship that wasn't American owned and American crewed to carry any cargo between two American ports.
("Norseman" may recall this).
My main point was to illustrate why the US Merchant Navy was, in comparison to the European MN, was pretty thin on the ground..as it were.
In my ignorance I sort of assumed that such an archaic ruling would have been long discarded.
Wrong.
At last weeks meeting of the G20 on "Fair Trade" the Dutch complained that this law was still in existence and had recently prevented a Dutch ship that had loaded cargo in Baltimore en-route to Rotterdam from entering New York to discharge a few tons of Baltimore cargo.
Fair Trade? I think not. BY.