“This new rule reverses decades-old policy that effectively allowed the use of taxpayer dollars to purchase foreign products for U.S. transportation purposes,” said Acting Federal Highway Deputy Administrator Gloria M. Shepherd. “American businesses now have a unique opportunity to take advantage of the broader federal government market.”
The Buy America Requirements for Manufactured Products Final Rule ends the previous Manufactured Products General Waiver, a general applicability waiver in existence for more than four decades that waived FHWA’s Buy America requirement for manufactured products. The new rule aims to maximize the use of domestically produced manufactured products permanently incorporated in federal-aid highway and bridge projects.
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