I don’t think those would count enough as foreign soil to get around the Jones Act, for the same reason that you don’t pay tariffs when receiving goods at the US Embassy in Beijing. We would need to actually cede the land, maybe to Japan in exchange for buying their shipyards, which in the long term could also circumvent the Jones Act if buying 51% ownership in their shipbuilding companies, having them be US crewed, etc. doesn’t ruin everything.
I don’t think those would count enough as foreign soil to get around the Jones Act, for the same reason that you don’t pay tariffs when receiving goods at the US Embassy in Beijing. We would need to actually cede the land, maybe to Japan in exchange for buying their shipyards, which in the long term could also circumvent the Jones Act if buying 51% ownership in their shipbuilding companies, having them be US crewed, etc. doesn’t ruin everything.
The jones act is definitely not helping, but shipping a 1 lb package 8 miles is currently $13.77 by UPS. Shipping from japan is $5.