Buy American Act
American Goods in Government Purchases
< The Buy American Act is the major domestic preference statutegoverning procurement by the Federal Government. Essentially,it attempts to protect domestic labor by providing a preference for Americangoods in government purchases. It was enacted in 1933 and has only been substantively amended four times in thesucceeding years. In determining whatare American goods, the place of mining, production, or manufacture iscontrolling. The nationality of the contractor is not considered whendetermining if a product is of domestic origin. While the Actappears to control most procurements of the Federal Government, it should benoted, when considering a particular procurement, that the application...
