in effect
Proclamation 10999 is a presidential action signed December 29, 2025, that extends an existing agricultural trade arrangement between the United States and Israel for one additional year. It also corrects several unrelated technical errors that had accumulated in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), the master document that lists import duties on all goods entering the country.
The proclamation keeps duty-free import treatment in place through December 31, 2026, for specified quantities of certain Israeli agricultural products — continuing a practice that has been renewed annually since 2008 under the original 2004 Agreement; a separate permanent agreement signed December 1, 2025 is expected to eventually replace these annual extensions. The proclamation also corrects two errors in the rules-of-origin language for Chapter 90 products (optical and medical instruments) under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, and fixes one misclassification error in the rules of origin for Chapter 88 (aircraft) under the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. It removes an outdated cross-reference to a tariff subheading (9819.15.10) that was deleted in 2008 but incompletely cleaned up through 2021. Finally, it corrects misaligned subdivision numbering in four EU-related tariff headings (9903.02.74–9903.02.77) that resulted from two later 2025 proclamations inserting new subdivisions without updating the existing cross-references.
U.S. importers and Israeli exporters of agricultural goods covered by the 2004 Agreement — such as certain fruits, vegetables, and other farm products — continue to benefit from duty-free treatment on specified import quantities through the end of 2026. Importers of goods classified under the U.S.-Singapore and U.S.-Korea free trade agreements, as well as those using the EU preferential tariff headings affected by the cross-reference errors, will see their tariff schedule entries corrected, though the underlying duty rates for those goods do not change.