Foreign-Trade Zone Export Enhancement Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6792 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6792

  To clarify provisions of the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement 
  Implementation Act and Foreign Trade Zones Act with respect to the 
appropriate tariff treatment of merchandise in a United States foreign-
                  trade zone, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 17, 2025

 Mr. Gooden (for himself, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Ms. Foxx, Ms. 
De La Cruz, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Buchanan) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify provisions of the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement 
  Implementation Act and Foreign Trade Zones Act with respect to the 
appropriate tariff treatment of merchandise in a United States foreign-
                  trade zone, 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 ``Foreign-Trade Zone Export 
Enhancement Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to ensure that foreign-trade zones in 
the United States continue--
            (1) to operate in support of United States competitiveness 
        in manufacturing and distribution; and
            (2) to create and preserve jobs in the United States.

SEC. 3. RULES RELATED TO DUTIES IMPOSED ON FOREIGN-TRADE ZONE 
              MERCHANDISE.

    (a) Amendments to Foreign Trade Zones Act.--Section 3 of the Act of 
June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the ``Foreign Trade Zones Act'') (19 
U.S.C. 81c), is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(f) Export From a Foreign-Trade Zone of Certain Merchandise 
Manufactured or Changed in Condition.--Notwithstanding the seventh 
proviso of subsection (a)--
            ``(1) each article subject to the procedures described in 
        such proviso and classifiable under the heading 9801.00.95 of 
        the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States shall enter 
        free of duty in accordance with such heading; and
            ``(2) any article consisting of components subject to such 
        procedures and classifiable under such heading shall enter free 
        of duty with respect to such components.''.
    (b) Duty-Free Treatment for Certain Articles.--Subchapter I of 
chapter 98 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(hereinafter the ``HTS'') is amended by inserting in numerical sequence 
the following new subheading:


``     9801.00.95      Merchandise that    Free         ...............  ...............  ...............   ''.
                        is subject to
                        duty deferral
                        restrictions of
                        the free trade
                        agreement between
                        the United
                        States, Mexico,
                        and Canada (19
                        U.S.C. 4501, et
                        seq.; commonly
                        known as the
                        `USMCA') (or any
                        successor
                        agreement) that
                        is admitted into
                        a United States
                        foreign-trade
                        zone,
                        manufactured, or
                        changed in
                        condition
                        therein, and
                        subsequently
                        withdrawn for
                        direct
                        exportation to
                        the territory of
                        a Party to that
                        agreement........

SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall issue such 
regulations as are necessary to implement section 3.
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