Maritime Executive April 28, 2014: Is the Jones Act Impacting Domestic Oil?  Charlie Papavizas, chair of Winston & Strawn law firm's maritime practice group, discusses both sides of the law.

Bill Loveless of Platts Energy Week recently interviewed Charlie Papavizas, Partner at Winston & Strawn’s Washington D.C. office, about the Jones Act’s impact on the U.S. domestic oil trade and prices.

Watch this provocative interview, and let us know your thoughts....

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Workboat Magazine April 28, 2014:  Shippers are increasingly moving crude to a refinery in Canada, where it can be converted into gasoline and transported back into the U.S., with all the transport taking place aboard foreign-owned vessels, Papvizas explained. A recent ruling by the U.S. Customs Service and Border Protection has also made it legal to do the same with refineries in the Bahamas ....