§6310 Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United States flags

Summary

Agencies must not use government money to buy any U.S. flag unless the flag is completely made in the United States (100 percent manufactured from materials grown or produced in the U.S.). An agency head can allow a non‑U.S. flag if a U.S. flag of acceptable quality or quantity cannot be bought when needed at U.S. market prices. The rule does not apply to purchases by ships in foreign waters, items bought for resale in military commissaries/exchanges or similar nonappropriated fund stores, or purchases below the simplified acquisition threshold. The President can waive the U.S.‑made requirement to follow a trade agreement and must publish the waiver in the Federal Register within 30 days. "Agency" means an executive agency (see title 40, sec. 102). "Simplified acquisition threshold" is defined in section 134.