The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has temporarily waived a U.S. shipping restriction for Puerto Rico known as the Jones Act. Under the law, only U.S.-flagged ships are allowed to move goods between any U.S. ports. Now foreign-flagged vessels also will be able to move shipments from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico and between ports there. The move is intended to boost the delivery of much-needed relief supplies after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. territory last week. The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration thanked President Trump in a tweet: That was in response to an announcement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders: NPR's Planet Money examined the Jones Act and says the 90-year-old law applies only to shipping, not other forms of transportation: "If you want to send a bunch of oranges by truck from Florida to Baltimore, no one cares who made the truck. Or if you want to fly computer chips across the country, it's fine if the plane is made in
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