Administration of the Buy American Act: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session April 5, 1978

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Page 7 - ... supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States...
Page 7 - Title 15]; or (c) To reject a bid or offer to furnish materials of foreign origin in any situation in which the domestic supplier offering the lowest price for furnishing the desired materials undertakes to produce substantially all of such materials in areas of substantial unemployment...
Page 8 - States substantially all from articles, materials or supplies mined, produced or manufactured in the United States...
Page 43 - Mr. Chairman, this concludes my prepared statement. We will be pleased to answer any questions you or the other committee members mavhave.
Page 63 - End products" means articles, materials, and supplies, which are to be acquired for public use. As to a given contract, the end products are the items to be delivered to the Government, as specified in the contract, including...
Page 77 - SEC. 2. (a) For the purposes of this order materials shall be considered to be of foreign origin if the cost of the foreign products used in such materials constitutes fifty per centum or more of the cost of all the products used in such materials. (b) For the purposes of the said act of March 3, 1933...
Page 8 - Supplies shall be considered to be manufactured "substantially all" from United States supplies whenever the cost of foreign supplies used in such manufacture constitutes 25 percent or less of the cost of all supplies used in such manufacture.
Page 55 - That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of specialty metals or chemical warfare protective clothing produced outside the United States or its possessions when such procurement is necessary to comply with agreements with foreign governments requiring the United States to purchase supplies from foreign sources for the purposes of offsetting sales made by the United States Government or United States firms under approved programs serving defense requirements or...
Page 2 - FOREIGN PRODUCT" Executive Order 10582 provides that materials shall be considered of foreign origin if the cost of the foreign products used in such materials constitutes 50 percent or more of the cost of all the products used in such materials.
Page 62 - ... has determined that it would be inconsistent with the public interest to apply the restrictions of the Buy American Act. (e) "Foreign end product" means an end product other than a domestic source end product.

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