# Cato on the Jones Act Part 1: Expert Available 

Colin Grabow is associate director at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies and a leading expert on the Jones Act.

March 12, 2026 • News Releases 

According to new reporting the Trump administration is preparing to issue temporary 30-day waiver of the Jones Act to allow foreign tankers to transport fuel between U.S. ports in an effort to ease rising oil prices.

[Colin Grabow](https://www.cato.org/people/colin-grabow) is associate director at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies and a leading expert on the Jones Act. His research focuses on maritime policy, U.S. shipbuilding, and the economic impact of shipping restrictions.

You can find recent work from Grabow below, statement to follow.

- [The Jones Act: Time to scrap this failed policy](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s8OpEewqRyY)
- [When US Gasoline Has to Leave the Country to Move Within It](https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-act-forces-us-gasoline-take-long-way-home)
- [No Need to Fib About Jones Act Burden](https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-need-fib-about-jones-act-burden)

To speak with Grabow, please reach out to Cato PR at [pr@​cato.​org](mailto:pr@cato.org).