§225h Buy American provisions

Summary

The Mayor must make sure the Buy American Act of 1933 (title III, approved March 3, 1933; 41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) applies to all purchases under this subchapter. If the Mayor, after talking with the U.S. Trade Representative, finds a foreign country that is party to a waiver agreement has unfairly discriminated against U.S. products covered by that agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative must cancel the waiver for those products. A waiver agreement is any deal between the United States and a foreign country where a U.S. agency head had waived Buy American rules for certain foreign-made items. The Mayor must report to Congress how much was spent with foreign suppliers in fiscal years 1992 and 1993, and must list separately the dollar value of items where Buy American was waived under such agreements, under the Trade Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or under other international deals. No contract paid for under this subchapter may buy items from a country the President has identified under 19 U.S.C. 2515(g)(1)(A) as unfairly discriminating in government procurement; those determinations must follow section 305. Anyone finally found to have falsely labeled a product “Made in America” cannot get contracts or subcontracts here and may be suspended or debarred under subpart 9.4 of chapter 1 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.