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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.
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Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3] · R–NC
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-26 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would extend duty-free treatment under a Haiti trade program until September 30, 2035. It would revise an apparel percentage rule, import limits, and references to covered one-year periods. It would also require the President to restore eligibility for preferential tariff treatment to certain goods that lost eligibility because of revisions to the U.S. tariff schedule.
2. Extension of special rules for Haiti under Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act
(h) Termination The duty-free treatment provided under this section shall remain in effect until September 30, 2035.
(I) Applicable percentage The term applicable percentage means 60 percent or more on and after December 20, 2017.
(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.
(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;
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).
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.
Section 2 would define the existing apparel rule's “applicable percentage” as 60 percent or more on and after December 20, 2017. The supplied text does not reproduce the surrounding rule explaining what this percentage measures.
(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.
For each period after the initial applicable one-year period, the specified favorable treatment for apparel would be limited to 1.25 percent of all U.S. apparel imports, measured in equivalent square meters using the most recent 12 months of available data.
(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.
Section 2 would replace “in each of the 16 succeeding 1-year periods” wherever it appears in the existing subsection (b)(2) with “in any of the succeeding 1-year periods.” The underlying paragraph is not supplied, so its other requirements cannot be described from this bundle.
(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;
The bill would set September 30, 2035, as the termination date for duty-free treatment under the amended section.
(h) Termination The duty-free treatment provided under this section shall remain in effect until September 30, 2035.
Section 3 would require the President to issue a proclamation making the changes to the U.S. tariff schedule needed to restore the described goods' eligibility for preferential treatment under the Haiti trade program. Restored eligibility does not itself establish that the goods would receive that treatment.
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).
Restoration of eligibility would cover only goods that were eligible on December 20, 2006, and then lost eligibility after that date but before enactment because of revisions to the tariff schedule.
(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.
The President would have to report the proclamation and reasons for the tariff changes to the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. The proclamation could take effect no earlier than two business days after that report is submitted.
(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.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated February 5, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Ways and Means on February 26, 2025. It does not establish subsequent passage or enactment.
Source snapshot updated 2026-02-05T17:34:00Z. 2025-02-26: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. 2025-02-26: Introduced in House
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-02-26. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
None identified in the reviewed text
No unrelated provision or policy change attached to appropriations was identified after reviewing the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
None identified in the reviewed text
No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified after reviewing the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
Findings to examine
A narrowly defined eligibility benefit is identified within the bill's main trade policy. This classification is not a judgment about its justification.
Section 3 would restore eligibility for preferential tariff treatment for a historically defined group of goods: those eligible on December 20, 2006, that lost eligibility after that date and before enactment because of tariff-schedule revisions. This gives that limited product group a route back into the Haiti trade program, without itself establishing that the goods would receive preferential treatment.
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.
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