[DOC] [TLE] Shipping Services for American Foreign Trade-The Present ... - JStor [PAR] This American fleet of seagoing vessels ... engaged in carrying overseas-the ... 
tons registered for foreign commerce ... flag was exceedingly inadequate for its. [DOC] [TLE] History - Transportation Institute [PAR] Five years later, 15 American vessels called at Canton on a single day. ... In 1789
, the new United States had 124,000 deadweight tons of shipping in its fleet. ... 
1826, U.S.-flag merchant vessels carried 92.5 percent of America's foreign trade. 
... which requires vessels engaged in the domestic trades to be U.S. owned, built
... [DOC] [TLE] status of the us-flagged vessels in us-foreign trade - US Government ... [PAR] That said, the current U.S.-flag foreign trade fleet of just over 90 vessels is not .... 
of the U.S.-flag fleet engaged in international trade has been in constant decline, 
... a merchant marine that is sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce
... [DOC] [TLE] Comparison of U.S. and Foreign-Flag Operating Costs - Maritime ... [PAR] Sep 20, 2011 ... As part of its ongoing efforts to promote the U.S.-flag fleet, the ... the operating 
costs of U.S.-flag vessels engaged in foreign commerce (including, but not limited 
... average cost of operating a U.S.-flag vessel in foreign commerce was 2.7 .... or 
registry for foreign-trading ships, since all must make use of the... [DOC] [TLE] State of the United States Merchant Fleet in Foreign Commerce [PAR] Our foreign trade fleet is subject to the full range of applicable U.S. laws ... Today, 
over 80 percent of the ships in international commerce fly open-registry flags. ... 
controls and the shipping company is free to recruit its crews internationally, ..... 
also assist our efforts to stop the decline in vessels engaged in foreign commerce
. [DOC] [TLE] State of the United States Merchant Fleet in Foreign Commerce [PAR] [1] The portion of our Nation's international trade carried on U.S.-flag ships, 
however, ... are 115 self-propelled, U.S.-flag ships engaged in the U.S. foreign 
commerce. .... Time and again, the U.S. merchant marine and its citizen mariners 
have... [DOC] [TLE] The Jones Act: Foreign-Built Vessels and the Domestic Shipping ... [PAR] to the Jones Act fleet is the requirement that only U.S.-built vessels can ... carriers 
by water in the foreign and certain domestic commerce of the United States. 
During .... citizens of the United States while engaged in the coasting trade paid 
the .... participation in its foreign trade by U.S. vessels increased from less than 
$100... [DOC] [TLE] the us merchant marine - US Naval War College [PAR] Jan 17, 2008 ... and present the reasons why the U.S. Merchant Marine engaged in international 
trade is in steep ... or more of America's foreign commerce 6 .... to obtain wealth
  A nation wishing to protect its ships and trade lanes needs a ... age of military 
or commercial sealift to support the fleet away from American. [DOC] [TLE] FOREIGN TRADE OFF, U. S. FLEET SHRINKS - Article - NYTimes.com [PAR] American ships engaged in foreign commerce, both privately-owned and 
Government - owned, continued last month to reflect the current downward trend 
in... [DOC] [TLE] An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (Part 10 of 14) [PAR] The Reagan administration early in its term indicated that a strong ... regulations 
that hinder the ability of the U.S. fleet to ... construct or acquire foreign-built 
vessels; and .... a U. S.- flag operator engaged in foreign commerce to use CCF. [DOC] [TLE] THE U. S. MERCHANT MARINE AND NATIONAL DEFENSE [PAR] sent the U. S. eet around the world. the Navy was ... rine was allowed to dwindle 
to a fraction of its pre-. Civil War size. In 1855 we had carried about three- fourths 
of our foreign commerce in our own ships. By 1890 ... engaged in foreign trade. [DOC] [TLE] Restraints on Foreign Investment in the Merchant MarineAn Asset ... [PAR] COMMERCE, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, app. k 
(1976). .... their vessels under the United States flag to operate in the foreign 
trade, .... engaged in ship repair and construction are its most

Question: It's the U.S. fleet of ships engaged in foreign commerce & trade
Answer: Merchant Marine