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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 225: Foreign Acquisition › Subpart 225.70

DFARS 225.7011-1 Restriction.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section restricts the acquisition of certain carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate for use in a Government-owned facility or a facility under DoD control. Such steel plate must be melted and rolled in the United States or Canada. The restriction applies to the steel plate as a finished mill product, but not to end products that merely contain such steel plate as a component.

Applies to: Acquisitions of certain carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate for use in a Government-owned or DoD-controlled facility

What it requires

  • Do not acquire the listed types of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate for use in a Government-owned facility or a facility under DoD control unless it is melted and rolled in the United States or Canada

Key terms: carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate · Federal Supply Class 9515 · melted and rolled in the United States or Canada · finished steel mill product · end product

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) In accordance with Section 8111 of the Fiscal Year 1992 DoD Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 102-172) and similar sections in subsequent DoD appropriations acts, do not acquire any of the following types of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate for use in a Government-owned facility or a facility under the control of (e.g., leased by) DoD, unless it is melted and rolled in the United States or Canada:

(1) Carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate in Federal Supply Class 9515.

(2) Carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate described by specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials or the American Iron and Steel Institute.

(b) This restriction—

(1) Applies to the acquisition of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate as a finished steel mill product that may be used “as is” or may be used as an intermediate material for the fabrication of an end product; and

(2) Does not apply to the acquisition of an end product (e.g., a machine tool), to be used in the facility, that contains carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate as a component.

← 225.7011 Restriction on carbon, alloy, and armor steel plate. · 225.7011-2 Waiver. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 225

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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