Us Expands Duty-Free Treatment Of Haiti Clothing Or Affects Us China Trade

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 Hongkong and the mainland of China, in the US market.

In April 13th, former US President Clinton and BillClinton sent letters to the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders to support the expansion of tariff preferences to 250 million square meters and extend the validity period from 8 years to 15 years, in order to attract investors to make long-term commitments.

According to the information, 3 Korean clothing manufacturers are studying the feasibility of investing in Haiti, but they are temporarily reluctant to invest, because only one company will exhaust their existing tariff preferences (equivalent to 70 million square meters).

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.