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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 On January 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” laying his administration’s foundation for further strengthening Buy American laws and encouraging domestic procurement. Using the broad phrase “Made in America Laws,” the EO aims to strengthen “all statutes, regulations, rules, and Executive Orders relating to Federal financial assistance awards or Federal procurement, including those that refer to ‘Buy America’ or ‘Buy American.’” This...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: “American manufacturing was the arsenal of democracy in World War Two, and it must be part of the engine of American prosperity now. That means we are going to use taxpayers’ money to rebuild America. We’ll buy American products and support American jobs, union jobs.” President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., January 25, 2021 *** On January 25, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed an Executive Order entitled Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers (the Order). The Order fulfills a campaign p...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Articulates Administration Policy And Creates New Made In America Office To Review Proposed Waivers Of “Made In America Laws” On January 25, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers (the “Made-in-America E.O.”). According to the White House, the Made-in-America E.O. “directs a process for updating domestic preferences to fit the current realities of the American economy” and is designed to ensure “that when the federal g...

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:      Section 1.  Policy.  It is the policy of my Administration that the United States Government should, consistent with applicable law, use terms and conditions of Federal financial assistance awards and Federal procurements to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in, and services offered in, the United States.  The United States Government should, whenever possible, procure goods, products, materials, and services from...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council recently issued a final rule that implements the requirements of the Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials Executive Order. As discussed below, the final rule – which largely adopts the proposed revisions set forth in the FAR Council’s September 14, 2020, proposed rule — contains important amendments concerning domestic component thresholds and domestic pricing preferences, as well as reintroduces the domestic content test for commercially available off-...