FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 225: Foreign Acquisition › Subpart 225.70
DFARS 225.7002-1 Restrictions.
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In plain English
This DFARS section restricts the Department of Defense from acquiring certain items unless they are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States. It covers food, clothing, tents, cotton, silk, wool, synthetic fabrics, canvas, individual equipment, hand or measuring tools, and U.S. flags. Contractors supplying these items to DoD must ensure domestic origin or qualify for an exception.
Applies to: DoD contractors supplying listed items
What it requires
- Do not acquire listed items unless grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States
- Do not acquire hand or measuring tools unless produced in the United States
- Do not acquire U.S. flags unless manufactured in the United States
Key terms: Berry Amendment · end products · components · produced in the United States · manufactured in the United States
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
(a) The following restrictions implement 10 U.S.C. 4862 (the “Berry Amendment”). Except as provided in 225.7002-2, do not acquire—
(1) Any of the following items, either as end products or components, unless the items have been grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States:
(i) Food.
(ii) Clothing and the materials and components thereof, other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with, clothing and the materials and components thereof. Clothing includes items such as outerwear, headwear, underwear, nightwear, footwear, hosiery, handwear, belts, badges, and insignia. For additional guidance and examples, see PGI 225.7002-1(a)(1)(ii).
(iii)(A) Tents and the structural components of tents;
(B) Tarpaulins; or
(C) Covers.
(iv) Cotton and other natural fiber products.
(v) Woven silk or woven silk blends.
(vi) Spun silk yarn for cartridge cloth.
(vii) Synthetic fabric or coated synthetic fabric, including all textile fibers and yarns that are for use in such fabrics.
(viii) Canvas products.
(ix) Wool (whether in the form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or manufactured articles).
(x) Any item of individual equipment (Product or Service Code (PSC) 8465) manufactured from or containing any of the fibers, yarns, fabrics, or materials listed in this paragraph (a)(1).
(2) Hand or measuring tools, unless the tools were produced in the United States. For additional guidance, see PGI 225.7002-1(a)(2).
(b) In accordance with section 8123 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 (Pub. L. 113-76, division C, title VIII), and the same provision in subsequent Defense appropriations acts, except as provided in 225.7002-2, do not acquire a flag of the United States (PSC 8345), unless such flag, including the materials and components thereof, is manufactured in the United States, consistent with the requirements at 10 U.S.C. 4862. This restriction does not apply to the acquisition of any end items or components related to flying or displaying the flag (e.g., flag poles and accessories).
Sections it refers to
- 225.7002-2 Exceptions.
Sections that refer to it
- 205.301 General.
- 225.7002-2 Exceptions.
← 225.7002 Restrictions on food, clothing, fabrics, hand or measuring tools, and flags. · 225.7002-2 Exceptions. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 225
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Modifications to Printed Circuit Board Acquisition Restrictions (DFARS Case 2022-D011) ↗ · proposed 2026-07-02 · comments due 2026-08-31
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Small Purchase Exception for the Acquisition of U.S. Flags (DFARS Case 2024-D013) ↗ · proposed 2026-06-25 · comments due 2026-08-24
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds (DFARS Case 2024-D002) ↗ · final rule 2025-08-25 · effective 2025-10-01
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2025-08-25 · effective 2025-08-25
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds (DFARS Case 2024-D002) ↗ · proposed 2025-01-17 · comments due 2025-03-18
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-12-18 · effective 2024-12-18
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Inapplicability of Additional Defense-Unique Laws and Certain Non-Statutory DFARS Clauses to Commercial Item Contracts (DFARS Case 2018-D074) ↗ · final rule 2024-11-15 · effective 2024-11-25
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-11-15 · effective 2024-11-15
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.