US Shutdown Hobbles Haiti’s Textile Industry Amid Stabilization Push

Workers at an industrial park in Port-au-Prince.Photographer: Pierre Michel Jean/AFP/Getty Images

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.