Goods from Haiti entered during the gap may be treated as entered on enactment day
Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, section 5020, Sec. 5020.
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Goods from Haiti entered during the gap may be treated as entered on enactment day
The document says “shall”Who acts: Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionHow: statuteSec. 5020 in the PDF
What the document says
“shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry occurred on the date of the enactment of this Act.”
Subsection (c) of section 5020 provides that an entry of an article from Haiti made on or after September 30, 2025 and before enactment, which would have had duty-free or other preferential treatment under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act had it been made before September 30, 2025, is liquidated or reliquidated as though it had occurred on the date of enactment. A request must be filed with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection within 180 days of enactment, and amounts owed are paid without interest of any kind within 90 days of the liquidation or reliquidation.
What the document actually says
“shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though such entry occurred on the date of the enactment of this Act.”
That sentence, in plain words
Settle the customs paperwork on those goods as if they had come in on the day this law passed.
What this is about
The deal ran out before the new law passed. Goods came in during that gap. This lets those goods get the deal after all.
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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, Public Law 119-75, sec. 5020, 140 Stat. 633 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm
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“Goods from Haiti entered during the gap may be treated as entered on enactment day,” Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, section 5020, Sec. 5020. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/consolidated-appropriations-act-2026/proposal/sec5020-retroactive-liquidation/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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