US Tariff Preferences For Imported Knitted Garments From Haiti Will Increase

According to the law, the tariff preference for knitted and woven garments imported from Haiti will be raised from the current equivalent of 70 million square meters to 200 million square meters.

Such tariff preferences allow duty-free treatment of garments that are stitched or knitted in Haiti.

If the level of tariff preferences is equal to 52 million square meters, the increase in tariff preferences will come into effect automatically.

The legislation includes a number of other measures, such as the tariff concessions offered to Haiti, extended to September 30, 2020, extended to the list of textiles and clothing that qualify for duty-free treatment, regardless of where the inputs come from, where they are completely stitched or knitted in Haiti; the United States customs frontier Protection Bureau is responsible for verifying that garments imported by customs tariff are not illegally pshipped to the United States. If illegal pshipment is available, the president of the United States has the right to reduce tariff preferences; the customs border protection bureau assesses the needs of Haiti customs, assists Haiti in reconstructing port operations, and assists Haiti in solving the current customs infrastructure needs.

Although the garments produced in Haiti are mostly low-grade products, such as cotton knitted pullovers, cotton T-shirt underwear, cotton man-made fiber T-shirts and so on, the above legislation will always affect the competitiveness of the major suppliers in the world, including China, Hongkong and the mainland, in the US market.

Haiti is the seventeenth largest clothing supplier in the United States, accounting for 1.1% of its total volume last year.

In 2009, China was the largest clothing supplier in the United States, accounting for 40.5% of the city's market.