Packaging & Label Design for Brands in Haiti

Haiti's Port-au-Prince consumer market, the Caribbean's second-largest by population, requires French and Haitian Creole bilingual packaging for all domestic FMCG products, as both languages are constitutionally official. The country's vetiver essential oil sector remains commercially active and globally significant: Haiti is the world's leading exporter of vetiver essential oil, supplying approximately 50–60% of global commercial volume (~80 tonnes per year), primarily to Swiss and French perfume houses. The US mango preclearance program administered by USDA APHIS has been suspended since October 2022 due to security conditions preventing the presence of US inspectors, effectively halting Haiti's previously established mango export trade to its largest market; resumption talks were ongoing as of mid-2024. The garment manufacturing sector, operating under the HOPE/HOPE II/HELP trade preference framework (retroactively extended to December 2026 by US Congress in February 2026), generated approximately $549 million in US apparel imports in 2024, down sharply from $844 million in 2023, with sector employment falling to roughly 22,000 as gang violence disrupted industrial zones.