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DFARS 252.225-7025 Restriction on acquisition of forgings.

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 the acquisition of forging items to domestic manufacture, meaning they must be made in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada. It applies to end products and components delivered under the contract. Contractors must keep records proving compliance for three years after final payment and flow the clause down to subcontracts.

Applies to: Contractors delivering end products or components containing forging items under this contract.

What it requires

  • Ensure forging items in delivered end products and components are of domestic manufacture.
  • Retain records showing compliance until 3 years after final payment.
  • Make records available upon request of the Contracting Officer.
  • Insert the substance of this clause, including paragraph (e), in subcontracts for forging items or items containing forging items.

Key terms: Component · Domestic manufacture · Forging items · End products · Subcontracts

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

The text

As prescribed in 225.7102-4, use the following clause:

Restriction on Acquisition of Forgings (DEC 2009)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—

(1) Component means any item supplied to the Government as part of an end product or of another component.

(2) Domestic manufacture means manufactured in the United States, its outlying areas, or Canada.

(3) Forging items means—

(b) End products and their components delivered under this contract shall contain forging items that are of domestic manufacture only.

(c) The restriction in paragraph (b) of this clause may be waived upon request from the Contractor in accordance with subsection 225.7102-3 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.

(d) The Contractor shall retain records showing compliance with the restriction in paragraph (b) of this clause until 3 years after final payment and shall make the records available upon request of the Contracting Officer.

(e) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (e), in subcontracts for forging items or for other items that contain forging items.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 252.225-7024 Requirement for Products or Services from Afghanistan. · 252.225-7026 Acquisition Restricted to Products or Services from Afghanistan. →

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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