Getting some thread drift here plus a lot of regurgitated thoughts from this:
In the above thread you insinuated the build requirement of the JA is your primary focus when you said
“If US-built was repealed and a waiver system instituted so Americans could use foreign flags if no US vessel was available or didn’t exist (e.g. for transporting LNG), I’d probably move on and spend more time attacking other dumb laws…”