Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise addresses the audience after being declared the official winner of the November 2016 presidential elections, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 3, 2017. "I`ve already engaged in talks with the textile sector, where we hope to create tens of thousands more jobs," Moise said. Moise hopes two measures, known by their acronyms HOPE and HELP, which provide duty-free preferences for certain light manufactured goods, will help power the economy. Haiti`s apparel industry accounts for most of its national export earnings and provides tens of thousands of jobs. President-elect Jovenel Moise, a successful banana exporter, was declared winner this month of a vote initially held in 2015 that had to be rerun more than a year later, due to allegations of voter fraud.

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