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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 225: Foreign Acquisition › Subpart 225.8

DFARS 225.872-1 General.

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 states that DoD has determined it is inconsistent with the public interest to apply Buy American statute or Balance of Payments Program restrictions to qualifying country end products from certain qualifying countries. It also allows individual acquisitions from Austria to be exempted on a purchase-by-purchase basis, and preserves the Secretary's authority to restrict to domestic sources or reject offers for national defense reasons.

Applies to: DoD acquisitions of qualifying country end products

Key terms: qualifying country end products · qualifying countries · Buy American statute · Balance of Payments Program · national defense reasons

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The text

(a) As a result of memoranda of understanding and other international agreements, DoD has determined it inconsistent with the public interest to apply restrictions of the Buy American statute or the Balance of Payments Program to the acquisition of qualifying country end products from the following qualifying countries:

(b) Individual acquisitions of qualifying country end products from the following qualifying country may, on a purchase-by-purchase basis (see 225.872-4), be exempted from application of the Buy American statute and the Balance of Payments Program as inconsistent with the public interest: Austria.

(c) The determination in paragraph (a) of this subsection does not limit the authority of the Secretary concerned to restrict acquisitions to domestic sources or reject an otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying country source when considered necessary for national defense reasons.

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 225.872 Contracting with qualifying country sources. · 225.872-2 Applicability. →

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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