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The Jacksonville Port Authority took over operation of the ferry in 2007 and raised the standard fare from $3.25 to $5.00, but still lost half a million dollars each year. However, they use port revenue, not tax money, to underwrite the operation. [29]
Jacksonville airports were under the control of the Port Authority since its inception, but in May 2001, the Florida State Legislature approved the restructuring of the Jacksonville Port Authority into two separate entities (City J-Bill-1104); the Jacksonville Aviation Authority (JAA) and the Jacksonville Seaport Authority effective October 1 ...
Canaveral Port Authority: Port Canaveral Florida: FTZ 166: Vision Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc. Miami Florida: FTZ 169: Manatee County Port Authority: Port Manatee Florida: FTZ 180: Wynwood Community Economic Development Corp. Miami Florida: FTZ 193: Pinellas County Economic Development: St. Petersburg Florida: FTZ 198: Volusia County Foreign-Trade ...
Logistics firms say lessons learned from the US-China trade war in 2018 and the changes implemented since may help cushion the blow if Trump makes good on promises to hike tariffs on US imports.
Thousands of East and Gulf Coast port workers launched a historic strike on October 1. ... who make $54.85 an hour — a rate that will increase to $60.85 in 2027, excluding overtime and benefits ...
Public seaports in Jacksonville are managed by the Jacksonville Port Authority, known as JAXPORT. Imported and exported goods are shipped from well over 100 countries through the Port of Jacksonville. JAXPORT operates three main cargo facilities: the Blount Island Marine Terminal, the Talleyrand Marine Terminal and the Dames Point Marine ...
He also suggested a 10-20% tariff on all goods and a 60% tariffs on Chinese goods. Those would mean average tariff rates at highs not seen since the Great Depression, according to the Tax Foundation.
The Democrats in Congress, dominated by Southern Democrats, wrote and passed the tariff laws in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, and kept reducing rates, so that the 1857 rates were down to about 15%, a move that boosted trade so overwhelmingly that revenues actually increased, from just over $20 million in 1840 ($0.6 billion in 2023 dollars), to ...