I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6792 
To clarify provisions of the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement Imple-
mentation Act and Foreign Trade Zones Act with respect to the appro-
priate tariff treatment of merchandise in a United States foreign-trade 
zone, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2025 
Mr. GOODEN (for himself, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Ms. FOXX, Ms. 
DE LA CRUZ, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, and Mr. BUCHANAN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means 
A BILL 
To clarify provisions of the United States Mexico-Canada 
Agreement Implementation Act and Foreign Trade Zones 
Act with respect to the appropriate tariff treatment of 
merchandise in a United States foreign-trade zone, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign-Trade Zone 
Export Enhancement Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to ensure that foreign- 
trade zones in the United States continue— 
(1) to operate in support of United States com-
petitiveness in manufacturing and distribution; and 
(2) to create and preserve jobs in the United 
States. 
SEC. 3. RULES RELATED TO DUTIES IMPOSED ON FOREIGN- 
TRADE ZONE MERCHANDISE. 
(a) AMENDMENTS
TO
FOREIGN
TRADE
ZONES 
ACT.—Section 3 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly 
known as the ‘‘Foreign Trade Zones Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 
81c), is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(f) EXPORT FROM A FOREIGN-TRADE ZONE OF 
CERTAIN MERCHANDISE MANUFACTURED OR CHANGED 
IN CONDITION.—Notwithstanding the seventh proviso of 
subsection (a)— 
‘‘(1) each article subject to the procedures de-
scribed in such proviso and classifiable under the 
heading 9801.00.95 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States shall enter free of 
duty in accordance with such heading; and 
‘‘(2) any article consisting of components sub-
ject to such procedures and classifiable under such 
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heading shall enter free of duty with respect to such 
components.’’. 
(b) DUTY-FREE TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN ARTI-
CLES.—Subchapter I of chapter 98 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (hereinafter the 
‘‘HTS’’) is amended by inserting in numerical sequence 
the following new subheading: 
‘‘ 
9801.00.95 
Merchandise that is subject 
to duty deferral restrictions 
of the free trade agreement 
between the United States, 
Mexico, and Canada (19 
U.S.C. 4501, et seq.; com-
monly known as the 
‘USMCA’) (or any successor 
agreement) that is admitted 
into a United States foreign- 
trade zone, manufactured, or 
changed in condition therein, 
and subsequently withdrawn 
for direct exportation to the 
territory of a Party to that 
agreement. .............................
Free 
.....................
’’. 
SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection shall issue such regulations as are nec-
essary to implement section 3. 
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