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DFARS 252.225-7016 Restriction on Acquisition of Ball and Roller Bearings.

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 clause restricts most ball and roller bearings delivered under the contract to being manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada, and requires that more than 50 percent of the cost of a bearing's components come from those same places. It matters because contractors must verify their bearing sources and flow the clause down to most subcontracts, though certain commercial-component exceptions and a waiver process exist.

Applies to: Contractors delivering ball and roller bearings under this contract, and their subcontractors

What it requires

  • Ensure each ball and roller bearing delivered under the contract is manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada
  • Ensure that, for each ball or roller bearing, the cost of bearing components manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada exceeds 50 percent of the total cost of that bearing's components
  • Insert the substance of this clause, including paragraph (f), in all subcontracts except those for commercial products or items that do not contain ball or roller bearings
  • If the contract includes DFARS 252.225-7009, ensure all bearings containing specialty metals meet that clause's requirements

Key terms: Bearing component · Component, other than a bearing component · End product · Commercial component · Specialty metals

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

The text

As prescribed in 225.7009-5, use the following clause:

Restriction on Acquisition of Ball and Roller Bearings (JAN 2023)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—

(1) Bearing component means the bearing element, retainer, inner race, or outer race.

(2) Component, other than a bearing component, means any item supplied to the Government as part of an end product or of another component.

(3) End product means supplies delivered under a line item of this contract.

(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause—

(1) Each ball and roller bearing delivered under this contract shall be manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada; and

(2) For each ball or roller bearing, the cost of the bearing components manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada shall exceed 50 percent of the total cost of the bearing components of that ball or roller bearing.

(c) The restriction in paragraph (b) of this clause does not apply to ball or roller bearings that are acquired as—

(1) Commercial components of an other than commercial end product; or

(2) Commercial or other than commercial components of a commercial component of an other than commercial end product.

(d) The restriction in paragraph (b) of this clause may be waived upon request from the Contractor in accordance with subsection 225.7009-4 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.

(e) If this contract includes DFARS clause 252.225-7009, Restriction on Acquisition of Certain Articles Containing Specialty Metals, all bearings that contain specialty metals, as defined in that clause, must meet the requirements of that clause.

(f) Subcontracts. The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (f), in all subcontracts, except those for—

(1) Commercial products; or

(2) Items that do not contain ball or roller bearings.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
  • 225.7009-5 Contract clause.

← 252.225-7015 Restriction on acquisition of hand or measuring tools. · 252.225-7017 Photovoltaic Devices. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

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

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