Eliminating costs created by the Jones Act temporarily represents a drop in the bucket compared to the global market swings created by the war in Iran.
Every day the conflict continues threatens to widen the global impacts to food supply chains, affecting everything from crop yields to grocery store prices.
With tanker traffic through the strait dropping by 90%, it's not hard to draw a straight line between the ongoing conflict and widespread supply chain disruptions.
Companies remain caught between a court ruling that invalidated the tariffs, and a government that has yet to fully acknowledge how it intends to unwind them.