Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act of 2023

Subjects: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:  <p><b>Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill extends through FY2035 the special duty-free rules for Haiti. It also extends through FY2035 the duty-free treatment provided for certain apparel products assembled in and imported from Haiti.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 552 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 552

  To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from 
         Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 28, 2023

   Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. Durbin) 
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.

    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 2023''.

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 during the period 
                                beginning on December 20, 2017, and 
                                ending on September 30, 2035.''; 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.''.
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