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§30704 Offshore Performance of Contracts for the Procurement of Goods and Services

Title 51 › Subtitle III — Administrative Provisions › CHAPTER 307 — INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COMPETITION › § 30704

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 120 days after each fiscal year, the Administrator must report to Congress on overseas contracts and purchases from foreign entities made that year. The report must separately list (1) contracts/subcontracts and their dollar values only available outside the U.S., and (2) items and dollar values where the Buy American Act was waived under international agreements.

Full Legal Text

Title 51, §30704

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The Administrator shall submit to Congress, not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a report on the contracts and subcontracts performed overseas and the amount of purchases directly or indirectly by the Administration from foreign entities in that fiscal year. The report shall separately indicate—
(1)the contracts and subcontracts and their dollar values for which the Administrator determines that essential goods or services under the contract are available only from a source outside the United States; and
(2)the items and their dollar values for which the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) was waived pursuant to obligations of the United States under international agreements.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3070442 U.S.C. 16823.Pub. L. 109–155, title VII, § 709, Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2938. In the matter before paragraph (1), the words “beginning with the first fiscal year after the date of enactment of this Act [December 30, 2005]” are omitted as obsolete.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Buy American Act, referred to in par. (2), is title III of act Mar. 3, 1933, ch. 212, 47 Stat. 1520, which was classified generally to section 10a, 10b, and 10c of former Title 41, Public Contracts, and was substantially repealed and restated in chapter 83 (§ 8301 et seq.) of Title 41, Public Contracts, by Pub. L. 111–350, §§ 3, 7(b), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3677, 3855. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1933 Act note set out under section 101 of Title 41 and Tables. For disposition of sections of former Title 41, see Disposition Table preceding section 101 of Title 41.

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Citation

51 U.S.C. § 30704

Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110