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40 sections with “domestic components”

  • FAR 25.101 General.
    (a) The Buy American statute restricts the purchase of supplies that are not domestic end products. For manufactured end products, the Buy American statute, E.O. 13881, and E.O. 14005 use a two-part test to define a domestic end product. (…
  • FAR 25.103 Exceptions.
    …rican statute: (a) Public interest. The head of the agency may make a determination that domestic preference would be inconsistent with the public interest. This exception applies when an agency has an agreement with a foreign government t…
  • FAR 25.201 Policy.
    (a) Except as provided in 25.202, use only domestic construction materials in construction contracts performed in the United States. (b) The Buy American statute restricts the purchase of construction materials that are not domestic constr…
  • DFARS 225.1101 Acquisition of supplies.
    …ticular source or sources under the authority of FAR 6.302-3; (B) All line items require domestic or qualifying country end products in accordance with subpart 225.70, but note that this exception does not apply if subpart 225.70 only requ…
  • FAR 25.001 General.
    …41 U.S.C. chapter 83, Buy American— (1) Restricts the purchase of supplies, that are not domestic end products, for use within the United States. A foreign end product may be purchased if the contracting officer determines that the price o…
  • FAR 25.003 Definitions.
    …on into the end product or construction material (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the contracto…
  • FAR 25.106 Determining reasonableness of cost.
    … that are not critical items and do not contain critical components. (1)(i) If there is a domestic offer that is not the low offer, and the restrictions of the Buy American statute apply to the low offer, the contracting officer must determ…
  • FAR 25.204 Evaluating offers of foreign construction material.
    …ption from the requirements of the Buy American statute based on the unreasonable cost of domestic construction materials. In the case of a tie, the contracting officer shall give preference to an offer that does not include foreign constru…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …mily members, shared facilities and equipment, and the common use of employees. Inverted domestic corporation means a foreign incorporated entity that meets the definition of an inverted domestic corporation under 6 U.S.C. 395(b), applied …
  • FAR 52.225-1 Buy American—Supplies.
    … the place of incorporation into the end product (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • FAR 52.225-3 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Israeli Trade Act.
    … the place of incorporation into the end product (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • FAR 52.225-9 Buy American—Construction Materials.
    … of incorporation into the construction material (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • FAR 52.225-11 Buy American—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    … of incorporation into the construction material (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • FAR 52.225-21 Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials.
    … individual parts or components of those systems are delivered to the construction site. Domestic construction material means the following— (1) An unmanufactured construction material mined or produced in the United States. (The Buy Amer…
  • FAR 52.225-23 Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods—Buy American Statute—Construction Materials Under Trade Agreements.
    …loped country construction material, or a Caribbean Basin country construction material. Domestic construction material means the following: (1) An unmanufactured construction material mined or produced in the United States. (The Buy Amer…
  • DFARS 225.003 Definitions.
    …uipment means any equipment, item of supply, component, or end product purchased by DoD. Domestic concern means— (1) A concern incorporated in the United States (including a subsidiary that is incorporated in the United States, even if th…
  • DFARS 225.101 General.
    …) For DoD, the following two-part test determines whether a manufactured end product is a domestic end product: (i) The end product is manufactured in the United States; and (ii)(A) Except for an end product that consists wholly or predom…
  • DFARS 225.7003-3 Exceptions.
    …nd Critical Materials Board of Directors pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-1, determines that the domestic availability of a particular electronic component is critical to national security. (2)(i) Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items…
  • DFARS 225.7503 Contract clauses.
    …Afghanistan. (3) Use the alternate II clause in lieu of the basic clause if an alternate domestic content threshold will apply to the entire period of performance as approved by the senior procurement executive (see 225.101(d)), unless the…
  • DFARS 252.225-7000 Buy American—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …cially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item, component, critical component, critical item, domestic end product, foreign end product, qualifying country, qualifying country end product, and United States, as used in this provision, have the …
  • DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American and Balance of Payments Program.
    …S. supply chain. The list of critical components is at FAR 25.105. Critical item means a domestic construction material or domestic end product that is deemed critical to the U.S. supply chain. The list of critical items is at FAR 25.105. …
  • DFARS 252.225-7035 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
    …vailable off-the-shelf (COTS) item,” “component,” “critical component,” “critical item,” “domestic end product,” “Free Trade Agreement country,” “Free Trade Agreement country end product,” “foreign end product,” “Moroccan end product,” “Pan…
  • DFARS 252.225-7036 Buy American—Free Trade Agreements—Balance of Payments Program.
    …U.S. supply chain. The list of critical components is at FAR 25.105. Critical item means domestic construction material or a domestic end product that is deemed critical to the U.S. supply chain. The list of critical items is at FAR 25.105…
  • DFARS 252.225-7044 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material.
    … the place of incorporation into the end product (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • DFARS 252.225-7045 Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements.
    … the place of incorporation into the end product (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or (2) For components manufactured by the Contracto…
  • FAR 25.105 Critical components and critical items.
    …tionale to permit evaluation (see 1.502). (c) For determining reasonableness of cost for domestic end products that contain critical components or are critical items (see 25.106(c)).
  • DFARS 252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities.
    As prescribed in 225.7002-3(a), use the following clause: Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities (APR 2022) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Component means any item supplied to the Government as part of an end product or of…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …is composed, in whole or in significant part, of biological products, including renewable domestic agricultural materials and forestry materials, or that is an intermediate ingredient or feedstock. The term includes, with respect to forestr…
  • DFARS 252.225-7009 Restriction on Acquisition of Certain Articles Containing Specialty Metals.
    …the fasteners certifies it will purchase, during the relevant calendar year, an amount of domestically melted or produced specialty metal, in the required form, for use in the production of fasteners for sale to the Department of Defense an…
  • FAR 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).
    …0,000). (B) Alternate I (OCT 2022) (Applies if the Contracting Officer has filled in the domestic content threshold below, which will apply to the entire contract period of performance. Substitute the following sentence for the first sente…
  • DFARS 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …o comply with 10 U.S.C. 4863. (H) Use the clause at 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, as prescribed in 225.7002-3(a), to comply with 10 U.S.C. 4862. (I) Use the clause at 252.225-7015, Restriction on Acquisition o…
  • DFARS 252.225-7021 Trade Agreements.
    … includes, in the definition of “qualifying country end product” at paragraph (2)(i), the domestic content threshold that will apply to the entire contract period of performance. Trade Agreements—Alternate III (FEB 2024) (a) Definitions. …
  • DFARS 252.225-7025 Restriction on acquisition of forgings.
    …y 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 com…
  • FAR 25.602-1 Section 1605 of the Recovery Act.
    …vernment and delivered to the site for incorporation into the project shall meet the same domestic source requirements as specified for manufactured construction material in paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section; and (c) A project m…
  • DFARS 212.504 Applicability of certain laws to subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
    …mandatory arbitration) and similar sections in subsequent DoD appropriations acts. (xiv) Domestic Content Restrictions in the National Defense Appropriations Acts for Fiscal Years 1996 and Subsequent Years, unless the restriction specifica…
  • DFARS 225.7003-5 Solicitation provision and contract clauses.
    …ontract line items containing specialty metals, but only some of the items are subject to domestic specialty metals restrictions, identify in the Schedule those items that are subject to the restrictions.
  • DFARS 225.7018-3 Exceptions.
    …and Critical Materials Board of Directors pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-1 determines that the domestic availability of a particular electronic device is critical to national security (but see PGI 225.7018-3(c)(2) with regard to samarium-cobalt …
  • DFARS 225.7102-1 Policy.
    …he following forging items, whether as end items or components, acquire items that are of domestic manufacture to the maximum extent practicable:
  • DFARS 252.225-7013 Duty-Free Entry.
    …s.” (B) If the shipment will be consigned to other than a military installation, e.g., a domestic contractor's plant, the shipping document notation shall be altered to include the name and address of the contractor, agent, or broker who w…
  • DFARS 252.225-7019 Restriction on Acquisition of Anchor and Mooring Chain.
    …t of components. (c) The Contractor may request a waiver of this restriction if adequate domestic supplies meeting the requirements in paragraph (b) of this clause are not available to meet the contract delivery schedule. (d) The Contract…

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.