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DFARS 252.225-7046 Exports by Approved Community Members in Response to the Solicitation.

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 DFARS provision applies to solicitations for contracts that may involve exports or transfers of defense articles under the U.S. Defense Trade Cooperation (DTC) Treaties with Australia and the United Kingdom. It allows Approved Community members to use the DTC Treaties for such exports or transfers when responding to the solicitation, but only for defense articles that specifically respond to the solicitation's requirements. Offerors must comply with the DTC Treaties and related regulations, and they must represent whether they made any such exports or transfers in preparing their response.

Applies to: Offerors responding to solicitations that may involve exports or transfers of defense articles under the DTC Treaties

What it requires

  • Only export or transfer defense articles that specifically respond to the stated requirements of the solicitation.
  • If using the DTC Treaties, comply with the DTC Treaties, Implementing Arrangements, and corresponding regulations.
  • Prior to export or transfer, mark, identify, transmit, store, and handle defense articles in accordance with the DTC Treaties and regulations.
  • Flow down the substance of this provision (excluding the representation) to subcontractors at any tier intending to use the DTC Treaties.

Key terms: Approved Community · defense articles · Defense Trade Cooperation (DTC) Treaty · qualifying defense articles · U.S. DoD Treaty-eligible requirements

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

The text

As prescribed in 225.7902-5(a), use the following provision:

Exports by Approved Community Members in Response to the Solicitation (JUN 2013)

(a) Definitions. The definitions of “Approved Community”, “defense articles”, “Defense Trade Cooperation (DTC) Treaty”, “export”, “Implementing Arrangement”, “qualifying defense articles”, “transfer”, and “U.S. DoD Treaty-eligible requirements” in DFARS clause 252.225-7047 apply to this provision.

(b) All contract line items in the contemplated contract, except any identified in this paragraph, are intended to satisfy U.S. DoD Treaty-eligible requirements. Specific defense articles that are not U.S. DoD Treaty-eligible will be identified as such in those contract line items that are otherwise U.S. DoD Treaty-eligible.

[Enter Contract Line Item Number(s) or enter “None”]

(c) Approved Community members responding to the solicitation may only export or transfer defense articles that specifically respond to the stated requirements of the solicitation.

(d) Subject to the other terms and conditions of the solicitation and the contemplated contract that affect the acceptability of foreign sources or foreign end products, components, parts, or materials, Approved Community members are permitted, but not required, to use the DTC Treaties for exports or transfers of qualifying defense articles in preparing a response to this solicitation.

(e) Any conduct by an offeror responding to this solicitation that falls outside the scope of the DTC Treaties, the Implementing Arrangements, and the implementing regulations of the Department of State in 22 CFR 126.16 (Australia), 22 CFR 126.17 (United Kingdom), and 22 CFR 126 Supplement No. 1 (exempted technologies list) is subject to all applicable International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements, including any criminal, civil, and administrative penalties or sanctions, as well as all other United States statutory and regulatory requirements outside of ITAR.

(f) If the offeror uses the procedures established pursuant to the DTC Treaties, the offeror agrees that, with regard to the export or transfer of a qualifying defense article associated with responding to the solicitation, the offeror shall—

(1) Comply with the requirements and provisions of the applicable DTC Treaties, the Implementing Arrangements, and corresponding regulations (including the ITAR) of the U.S. Government and the government of Australia or of the United Kingdom, as applicable; and

(2) Prior to the export or transfer of a qualifying defense article—

(i) Mark, identify, transmit, store, and handle any defense articles provided for the purpose of responding to such solicitations, as well as any defense articles provided with or developed pursuant to their responses to such solicitations, in accordance with the DTC Treaties, the Implementing Arrangements, and corresponding regulations of the United States Government and the government of Australia or the government of the United Kingdom, as applicable, including, but not limited to, the marking and classification requirements described in the applicable regulations;

(ii) Comply with the re-transfer or re-export provisions of the DTC Treaties, the Implementing Arrangements, and corresponding regulations of the United States Government and the government of Australia or the government of the United Kingdom, as applicable, including, but not limited to, the re-transfer and re-export requirements described in the applicable regulations; and

(iii) Acknowledge that any conduct that falls outside or in violation of the DTC Treaties, Implementing Arrangements, and implementing regulations of the applicable government including, but not limited to, unauthorized re-transfer or re-export in violation of the procedures established in the applicable Implementing Arrangement and implementing regulations, remains subject to applicable licensing requirements of the government of Australia, the government of the United Kingdom, and the United States Government, as applicable, including any criminal, civil, and administrative penalties or sanctions contained therein.

(g) Representation. The offeror shall check one of the following boxes and sign the representation:

□ The offeror represents that export(s) or transfer(s) of qualifying defense articles were made in preparing its response to this solicitation and that such export(s) or transfer(s) complied with the requirements of this provision.

Name/Title of Duly Authorized Representative Date

□ The offeror represents that no export(s) or transfer(s) of qualifying defense articles were made in preparing its response to this solicitation.

Name/Title of Duly Authorized Representative Date

(h) Subcontracts. The offeror shall flow down the substance of this provision, including this paragraph (h), but excluding the representation at paragraph (g), to any subcontractor at any tier intending to use the DTC Treaties in responding to this solicitation.

(End of provision)

Sections it refers to

  • 225.7902-5 Solicitation provision and contract clause.
  • 252.225-7047 Exports by Approved Community Members in Performance of the Contract.

Sections that refer to it

  • 225.7902-5 Solicitation provision and contract clause.

← 252.225-7045 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements. · 252.225-7047 Exports by Approved Community Members in Performance of the Contract. →

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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