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The bill lowers costs and increases predictability for importers and retailers—including retroactive refunds—while trading off increased competition for U.S. apparel producers, reduced customs revenue/near-term federal outlays, and added compliance and oversight challenges.
Importers and U.S. retailers (small-business-owners) will pay lower import costs because qualifying Haitian-made garments remain duty-free through Dec 31, 2028 and certain covered articles regain lower tariff treatment, improving margins and retail competitiveness.
Importers and Haitian producers face less regulatory uncertainty because the bill sets a clear 60% applicable-percentage eligibility threshold for qualifying inputs, making qualification decisions and supply-chain planning more predictable.
Importers and U.S. market planners benefit from a predictable, limited annual expansion of qualifying Haitian apparel (cap at 1.25% of U.S. apparel imports), which reduces volatility in import supply and helps firms plan inventory and pricing.
U.S. domestic apparel and related producers (small-business-owners and domestic textile workers) face increased competition from duty-free and lower-tariff imports, which could reduce domestic sales, production, and jobs in the apparel sector.
Taxpayers and the federal budget may face increased pressure because lower tariffs and duty refunds reduce customs revenue and require near-term Treasury outlays to reimburse importers.
Importers and Customs and Border Protection will face added administrative and compliance burdens — tracking square-meter equivalents, enforcing the 60% rule, and locating/reconstructing entries and filing within 180 days — which raises costs and risks border delays, especially for small importers.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Extends and narrows Haiti apparel duty‑free preferences (60% origin rule, 1.25% annual volume cap) and allows certain retroactive duty refunds for entries from Sept 30, 2025 onward.
Extends and modifies Haiti-specific apparel tariff preferences under the Caribbean Basin trade program, setting a 60% "applicable percentage" for origin rules, imposing an annual quantity cap equal to 1.25% of aggregate U.S. apparel imports, and extending duty‑free treatment through December 31, 2028. It directs the President to adjust the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to restore certain prior eligibilities and allows retroactive duty‑free treatment and refund claims for covered Haitian articles entered on or after September 30, 2025 and before the Act’s enactment, subject to claim filing rules and payment timing.
Introduced December 9, 2025 by Gregory Francis Murphy · Last progress January 13, 2026