Buy American Act
The Buy American Act (BAA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1933 and signed by President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1933, his last full day in office. He obliged the United States government to give preference to US-made products in their purchases. Other similar federal laws extend similar obligations to third-party purchases that are paid for with federal funds, such as highway construction programs and transit programs .
history
1929 it came to the Great Depression , the US Great Depression called. In the wake of this crisis, many governments took protectionist measures; many people changed their shopping behavior on their own initiative or out of a patriotic feeling and preferred domestic products when shopping. The British government launched a “Buy British!” Campaign in 1931. In the US, the Great Depression lasted a long time; the 1932 elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt operated two New Deal programs to revive the economy.
General
This rule can be deviated from for certain procurement processes by the government,
- when the native product ( domestic product ) a certain percentage is more expensive than an identical foreign,
- if it is not available domestically in sufficient quality and / or quantity
- and / or when it is in the public interest to do so.
The President of the United States has the right to override the Buy American Act within a reciprocal agreement or otherwise in response to US manufacturers receiving reciprocal treatment .
Under four contracts, viz
- the 1979 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Government Procurement Code,
- the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement ,
- the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement and
- the 1996 Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO),
The US grants states access to certain US agencies' government procurement for goods from other parties to these agreements.
However, the Buy American Act has been excluded from the scope of the GPA.
The BAA is not to be confused with the Buy America Act , which came into effect in 1983. The latter is a (Execution?) Determination of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, as Title 49 of the United States Code, section 5323 (j) codified and applies only to procurements related to transport ( mass-transit-related Procurements ) valued at over US $ 100,000, at least in part paid by public funds.
See also
Web links
- usinfo.state.gov
- "Buy domestic policies" from the Global Legal Information Network Subject Term Index
- www.buyamerican-saveamerica.com lists products made in the USA
swell
- ^ Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon Press, 2000) p65
- ↑ http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/5323#j
- ^ The Buy American and Buy America Acts . Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade , Canada . May 22, 2009. Archived from the original on May 13, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 21, 2009.
