Bill Details
S.742 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced Date
2025-02-26
Policy Area
Foreign Trade and International Finance
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This bill would extend and expand special duty-free trade treatment for certain imports from Haiti. In simple terms, it keeps tariff-free access in place for Haitian goods for a longer period of time, updates the rules for some apparel imports, and brings back eligibility for certain products that lost their preferred trade status because of later tariff schedule changes.
- It would keep the duty-free treatment for Haiti in effect until September 30, 2035.
- It changes the clothing rules so that more apparel can qualify if enough of it is made with Haitian materials or labor.
- It also changes the limits on how much of this apparel can come into the United States under the special trade rules each year.
- It would restore preferred treatment for certain goods that were eligible in 2006 but later became ineligible because the tariff schedule was revised.
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]
[S. 742 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 742
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 26, 2025
Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Scott of
Florida) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Finance
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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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