H. R. 5160 
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
An Act 
To extend the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, to provide customs support 
services to Haiti, 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 
Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit by a 7.0 magnitude 
earthquake, the worst earthquake to affect Haiti in recorded 
history. Aftershocks from the earthquake, measuring up to 
6.0 on the Richter scale, continued for days afterwards. 
(2) The earthquake has devastated Haiti’s infrastructure, 
including homes, offices, factories, roads, ports, communica-
tions, and other facilities. The loss of life attributable to the 
earthquake was massive. 
(3) Even before the earthquake, Haiti was the poorest 
country in the Western Hemisphere, ranking 149 out of 182 
countries according to the United Nation’s Human Development 
Index. 
(4) In recent years, however, the Government and people 
of Haiti had taken important steps forward to promote economic 
growth and development, including making strides towards 
establishing a competitive apparel sector. 
(5) United States trade preference programs, including the 
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (as amended by the 
United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, the Hai-
tian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encourage-
ment Act of 2006, and the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity 
through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2008), which extend 
duty-free tariff treatment to certain apparel produced in Haiti, 
have made an important contribution to Haiti’s economic 
development efforts. 
(6) However, the Haitian apparel sector has been hard 
hit by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. A number of apparel 
factories based in and around Port-au-Prince have been heavily 
damaged, including the collapse of one major apparel factory 
that had employed nearly 4,000 workers. 
(7) The Port-au-Prince seaport that had served the apparel 
trade has been badly damaged. And extensive damage to roads
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has made it difficult to transport apparel to the Dominican 
Republic for shipment from ports in that country. 
(8) According to estimates by the Department of Commerce, 
imports of apparel articles from Haiti to the United States 
in 2010 have decreased by 43 percent as compared to the 
same period in 2009. 
(9) The earthquake has increased significantly the costs 
and uncertainty of doing business in Haiti. A strong and 
unequivocal commitment from the United States is needed 
to help Haiti offset these costs and preserve the gains made 
under United States trade preference programs, and to encour-
age buyers and investors to stand with Haiti through this 
crisis. 
SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF CARIBBEAN BASIN ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT. 
The Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2701 
et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 213(b)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(A)— 
(i) in clause (iii)— 
(I) in subclause (II)(cc), by striking ‘‘September 
30, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’; and 
(II) in subclause (IV)(dd), by striking ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2020’’; and 
(ii) in clause (iv)(II), by striking ‘‘8’’ and inserting 
‘‘18’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (5)(D)(i), by striking ‘‘September 30, 
2010’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’; and 
(2) in section 213A(h), by striking ‘‘September 30, 2018’’ 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 
SEC. 4. APPAREL AND OTHER ARTICLES SUBJECT TO CERTAIN 
ASSEMBLY RULES. 
(a) CERTAIN OTHER APPAREL ARTICLES.—Section 213A(b)(3) of 
the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2703a(b)(3)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) CERTAIN OTHER APPAREL ARTICLES.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Any of the apparel articles 
described in clause (ii) that is wholly assembled, or 
knit-to-shape, in Haiti from any combination of fabrics, 
fabric components, components knit-to-shape, or yarns 
and is imported directly from Haiti or the Dominican 
Republic shall enter the United States free of duty, 
without regard to the source of the fabric, fabric compo-
nents, components knit-to-shape, or yarns from which 
the article is made. 
‘‘(ii) 
ARTICLES
DESCRIBED.—Apparel 
articles 
described in this clause are apparel articles in the 
following category numbers that fall within the fol-
lowing statistical reporting numbers of the HTS (as 
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment 
of this subparagraph):
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‘‘Category Number 
HTS Statistical 
Reporting Number 
334 
6101.90.9010 
6112.11.0010 
6103.22.0010 
6113.00.9015 
335 
6104.22.0010 
6104.29.2010 
6112.11.0020 
336 
6104.49.9010 
338 
6103.22.0050 
6105.90.8010 
6112.11.0030 
339 
6104.22.0060 
6104.29.2049 
6106.90.2510 
6106.90.3010 
6110.20.1031 
6110.20.1033 
6112.11.0040 
342 
6104.22.0030 
6104.29.2022 
6104.52.0010 
6104.52.0020 
6104.59.8010 
350 
6107.91.0040 
6107.91.0090 
351 
6107.21.0010 
6107.21.0020 
6107.91.0030 
6108.31.0010 
6108.31.0020 
433 
6103.23.0007 
6103.29.0520 
6103.31.0000 
6103.33.1000 
6103.39.8020 
434 
6101.30.1500