Coasting Trade

Domestic trade between port and port in the United States, as distinguished from foreign trade between a port in the United States and a port in a foreign country. 1 Wend. (N. Y.) 557; 10 'Cal. 504. It is said to include a trade between places in the same district on a navigable river (3 Cow. [N. Y.] 713), but not

In maritime law. Commerce and navigation between different places along the coast of the United States, as distinguished from commerce with ports in foreign countries. Commercial intercourse carried on between different districts in different states, different districts in the same state, or different places in the same district, on the sea-coast or on a navigable river. Steamboat Co. v. Livingston, 3 Caw. (N. Y.) 747; San Francisco v. California Steam Nav. Co., 10 Cal. 507; In S. v. Pope, 28 Fed. Cas. 630; Ravesies v. U. S. (D. Ct) 35 Fed. 919.

Defined under Coast in Black's Law Dictionary.

By act of Confess of Februai-y 18, 1793, commercial intercourse carried on between different districts in different States, between different districts in the same State, and between different places in the same district, on the seacoast or on a navigable river.* The reference is to vessels engaged in the domestic trade, plying between ports in the United States, as distmguished from vessels engaged in the foreign trade or plying between a port of the United States and a port in a foreign country."