FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 25: Foreign Acquisition › Subpart 25.5
FAR 25.504-2 WTO GPA/Caribbean Basin Trade Initiative/FTAs.
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 explains how to evaluate offers when an acquisition is covered by the WTO GPA and there is an offer of a U.S.-made or eligible product. It directs eliminating an offer that is not a U.S.-made or eligible product, and if the agency treats certain U.S.-made end products the same as eligible offers, it is unnecessary to determine if those products are domestic. Award is then made on the low remaining offer.
Applies to: Acquisitions covered by the WTO GPA with offers of U.S.-made or eligible products
What it requires
- Eliminate an offer that is not a U.S.-made or eligible product when the acquisition is covered by the WTO GPA and there is an offer of a U.S.-made or eligible product
- Award on the low remaining offer
Key terms: WTO GPA · Caribbean Basin Trade Initiative · FTAs · U.S.-made end product · eligible product
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Analysis: Eliminate Offer D because the acquisition is covered by the WTO GPA and there is an offer of a U.S.-made or an eligible product (see 25.502(b)(1)). If the agency gives the same consideration given eligible offers to offers of U.S.-made end products that are not domestic offers, it is unnecessary to determine if U.S.-made end products are domestic (large or small business). No further analysis is necessary. Award on the low remaining offer, Offer C (see 25.502(b)(2)).
Sections it refers to
- 25.502 Application.
← 25.504-1 Buy American statute. · 25.504-3 FTA/Israeli Trade Act. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 25
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2026-03-13 · effective 2026-03-13
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · final rule 2025-08-27 · effective 2025-10-01
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: List of Domestically Nonavailable Articles ↗ · final rule 2025-05-12 · effective 2025-06-11
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment ↗ · final rule 2025-01-03 · effective 2025-01-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-12-16 · effective 2025-01-03
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds ↗ · proposed 2024-11-29 · comments due 2025-01-28
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: List of Domestically Nonavailable Articles ↗ · proposed 2024-10-23 · comments due 2024-12-23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Technical Amendments ↗ · final rule 2024-07-30 · effective 2024-08-29
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.