US Shutdown Hobbles Haiti Textile Sector Amid Stabilization Push

Just hours after the Trump administration pushed an international “gang suppression force” through the United Nations to stabilize Haiti, US lawmakers gutted the country’s last stable industry.

A two-decade-old law that allows Haitian textiles to enter the US tax free expired Tuesday as the government in Washington shut down.

In a country seized by crime and rampant gang violence, the textile sector is one of few that’s working and is an important source of revenue for the country, said Maulik Radia, the president of the Haiti Industrial Association. The industry employs more than 24,800 people and exports to the US ...