Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act

This bill extends duty-free treatment for imports from Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. It rewrites the termination clause so the preferences run until December 31, 2028. It sets the applicable percentage for qualifying apparel at 60 percent or more on and after December 20, 2017, and caps the preferential treatment at 1.25 percent of the total square meter equivalents of all apparel imported into the United States in the most recent 12-month period. It also strikes the old limit of 16 succeeding one-year periods and replaces it with any succeeding period. The bill orders the President to modify the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to restore eligibility for articles that qualified on December 20, 2006 but later lost eligibility because of tariff schedule revisions, and that proclamation cannot take effect until at least two business days after the President reports to the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees. Because the prior authority had lapsed, the bill applies backward: any Haitian import entered on or after September 30, 2025 and before enactment is reliquidated as if it entered on the enactment date, with no interest paid, and refund requests must reach Customs within 180 days.

At least 9 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 31 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 7 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: American Apparel & Footwear Association; Travel Goods Association; International Labour Organization; Cintas; AFL-CIO. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 4 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.