The bill extends special rules for Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, ensuring 60% preferential treatment.
It restores eligibility of certain articles for preferential treatment under the Act, retroactively applying from September 30, 2025.
The President will make necessary modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to reinstate preferential treatment for specific articles from Haiti.
Any entry of an article to which duty-free treatment would have applied before September 30, 2025, will be liquidated or reliquidated as of the enactment of this Act.
A request for a liquidation or reliquidation must be filed within 180 days, and owed amounts to the U.S. must be paid within 90 days of the liquidation.
Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act
This bill extends through December 31, 2028, 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.
The bill also provides for the refund of duties (i.e., liquidation or reliquidation of entries) on covered articles from Haiti that entered into the United States on or after September 30, 2025, and before the date of this bill's enactment. A request for liquidation or reliquidation must be filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the request must contain sufficient information for CBP to locate the entry or, if the entry cannot be located, reconstruct the entry. CBP must refund any duties previously paid with respect to the entry within 90 days.
