Title: To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This bill extends through FY2035 the special duty-free rules for Haiti. It also extends through FY2035 the duty-free treatment provided for apparel articles assembled in Haiti and imported from Haiti or the Dominican Republic.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9461 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9461

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2022

 Mr. Wenstrup introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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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. 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) in subparagraph (B)(v)(I) to read as 
                        follows:
                                    ``(I) Applicable percentage.--The 
                                term `applicable percentage' means--
                                            ``(aa) 60 percent or more 
                                        during the 1-year period 
                                        beginning on December 20, 2017, 
                                        and each of the 16 succeeding 
                                        1-year periods; and
                                            ``(bb) 60 percent of more 
                                        during the period beginning on 
                                        December 20, 2034, and ending 
                                        on September 30, 2035.''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) in the table, by striking ``16 
                                succeeding 1-year periods'' and 
                                inserting ``27 succeeding 1-year 
                                periods and the period beginning on 
                                December 20, 2034, and ending on 
                                September 30, 2035''; and
                                    (II) in the matter following the 
                                table, by striking ``December 19, 
                                2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 
                                2035''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking 
                        ``16 succeeding 1-year periods'' and inserting 
                        ``26 succeeding 1-year periods''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking 
                        ``16 succeeding 1-year periods'' and inserting 
                        ``26 succeeding 1-year periods''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``2025'' and inserting 
        ``2035''.
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