Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act of 2025

Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act of 2025

This bill extends through FY2035 the special duty-free rules for various apparel products imported from Haiti, including the duty-free treatment provided for a limited amount (referred to as tariff preference levels) of certain apparel products assembled in and imported from Haiti.

The bill directs the President to proclaim such modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) that may be necessary to restore preferential treatment to articles that became ineligible for such treatment due to prior revisions to the HTS.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1625 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1625

  To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from 
 Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2025

  Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Salazar, Ms. 
 Wilson of Florida, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Correa, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. 
 Lois Frankel of Florida, and Ms. Meng) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from 
 Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Haiti Economic Lift Program 
Extension Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SPECIAL RULES FOR HAITI UNDER CARIBBEAN BASIN 
              ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT.

    Section 213A of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 
U.S.C. 2703a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by amending subparagraph (B)(v)(I) to 
                        read as follows:
                                    ``(I) Applicable percentage.--The 
                                term `applicable percentage' means 60 
                                percent or more on and after December 
                                20, 2017.''; and
                            (ii) by amending subparagraph (C) to read 
                        as follows:
                    ``(C) Quantitative limitations.--The preferential 
                treatment described in subparagraph (A) shall be 
                extended, during each period after the initial 
                applicable 1-year period, to not more than 1.25 percent 
                of the aggregate square meter equivalents of all 
                apparel articles imported into the United States in the 
                most recent 12-month period for which data are 
                available.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``in each of the 
                16 succeeding 1-year periods'' each place it appears 
                and inserting ``in any of the succeeding 1-year 
                periods''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (h) to read as follows:
    ``(h) Termination.--The duty-free treatment provided under this 
section shall remain in effect until September 30, 2035.''.

SEC. 3. RESTORATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN ARTICLES FOR PREFERENTIAL 
              TREATMENT.

    (a) In General.--The President shall proclaim such modifications to 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States as may be necessary 
to restore the eligibility of articles described in subsection (b) for 
preferential treatment under section 213A of the Caribbean Basin 
Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2703a).
    (b) Articles Described.--An article described in this subsection is 
an article that--
            (1) was eligible for preferential treatment under section 
        213A of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 
        2703a) on December 20, 2006; and
            (2) became ineligible for such treatment after that date 
        and before the date of the enactment of this Act as a result of 
        revisions to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
    (c) Effective Date of Proclamation.--A proclamation under 
subsection (a) shall take effect not earlier than 2 business days after 
the President submits to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the 
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report on 
the proclamation and the reasons for the modifications to the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule under the proclamation.
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