Bill Details
HR.1625 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced Date
2025-02-26
Policy Area
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Committees
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Cosponsors
View cosponsors (17)
- Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila [D-Florida-20]
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-Florida-27]
- Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-Florida-24]
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-New York-17]
- Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-California-46]
- Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-Florida-25]
- Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-Florida-22]
- Rep. Meng, Grace [D-New York-6]
- Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-Florida-26]
- Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-Florida-16]
- Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-New York-11]
- Rep. Miller, Carol D. [R-West Virginia-1]
- Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-Florida-5]
- Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-Florida-28]
- Rep. Miller, Max L. [R-Ohio-7]
- Rep. Moran, Nathaniel [R-Texas-1]
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-Virginia-7]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would extend and update the special duty-free trade rules that apply to imports from Haiti. In simple terms, it keeps certain Haitian goods, especially apparel, eligible for easier access to the U.S. market for a longer period of time, and it also restores duty-free treatment for some products that lost that status because of tariff schedule changes. The bill is meant to support Haiti’s economy by making it easier for Haitian-made goods to enter the United States without customs duties.
- It extends the current duty-free treatment for Haitian imports until September 30, 2035.
- It updates the rules for Haitian apparel so that the clothing must meet a 60% requirement tied to materials and production, and it keeps a cap on how much apparel can qualify for the special treatment.
- It changes the timing rules so the apparel preference can apply in any of the later 1-year periods, rather than only in each of the 16 specific years listed before.
- It tells the President to restore duty-free treatment for certain products that were eligible in 2006 but later became ineligible because the tariff code was revised, with the change taking effect after Congress is notified.
Official Summaries
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.
Current Full Text
[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
_______________________________________________________________________
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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