title: Domestic Content Legislation: The Buy American Act and Complementary
 Little Buy American Provisions
creator: Luckey, John R.
publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
date: 2012-04-25
language: English
description: Congress has broad authority to place conditions on the purchases
 made by the federal government or with federal dollars. One of many conditions
 that it has placed on direct government purchases is a requirement that they
 be produced in the United States. The most well-known of these requirements is
 the Buy American Act, which is the major domestic preference statute governing
 procurement by the federal government. This report summarizes (1) the Buy
 American Act, what it does and does not cover; (2) the Little Buy American
 Acts found in permanent law, emphasizing what they govern, major exceptions
 and why Congress felt them necessary in light of the requirements of the Buy
 American Act; and (3) the temporary Little Buy American provision found in the
 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
subject: Government spending
subject: Government procurement
subject: Buy American
subject: Nontariff trade barriers
subject: Public contracts
subject: Trade
coverage: United States
type: Report
format: 19 pages.
format: Text
identifier: crs: R42501
identifier: local-cont-no: R42501_2012Apr25
identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc85411/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc85411