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On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers. The order is part of his “Build Back Better Recovery Plan” to strengthen American manufacturing and has potentially far-reaching effect. The order will tighten the federal government’s requirements to buy American products, support American jobs and rationalize the enforcement of the country’s patchwork of “Made in America” laws.
Companies that supply goods and services to the federal government may no longer benefit from statutes like “Buy American.” The January 25 order will tighten agencies’ purchasing by increasing domestic content requirements and close loopholes for determining country of origin under Made in America laws. Companies that benefit from domestic preferences now must re-examine whether they will continue to benefit under the proposed new regulat
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President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Jan. 25, 2021, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America s Workers (E.O.), aimed at strengthening Buy American provisions.
The E.O. establishes the Biden Administration s policy that the U.S. government should spend taxpayer dollars on American goods made by American workers with American-made component parts, and seeks to tighten exceptions from, or waivers of, domestic preference requirements under U.S. procurement laws.
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Jan. 25, 2021, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America s Workers (E.O.), aimed at strengthening Buy American provisions. The E.O. was one of a number of actions intended to quickly follow through on pledges made on the campaign trail last year. President Biden announced last summer in his Plan to Fight for Workers by Delivering on Buy America and Make It in America that the Biden-Harris Administration woul
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The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. We have a narrow moment to pursue action at home and abroad in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of that crisis and to seize the opportunity that tackling climate change presents. Domestic action must go hand in hand with United States international leadership, aimed at significantly enhancing global action. Together, we must listen to science and meet the moment.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. We have a narrow moment to pursue action at home and abroad in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of that crisis and to seize the opportunity that tackling climate change presents. Domestic action must go hand in hand with United States international leadership, aimed at significantly enhancing global action. Together, we must listen to science and meet the moment.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
PART I PUTTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AT THE CENTER OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
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On Jan. 25, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening “Buy American” rules to increase the federal government’s procurement of American-made goods.
According to the White House, this order makes several significant changes to the implementation of the laws requiring federal government agencies to procure materials and products domestically.
The order aims to increase domestic content requirements and close existing loopholes upon which many government contractors currently rely. To accomplish this, the order instructs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend the FAR to (1) replace the “component test” in Part 25 of the FAR that is used to identify domestic end products; (2) increase the numerical threshold for domestic content requirements for products; and (3) increase the price preferences for domestic end products. It also updates how agencies decide if a pr