252.225-7001  Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program.

3. Amend section 252.225-7001 as follows:

a. Remove the clause date "(SEP 2011)" and add in its place "(OCT 2011)";

b. In paragraph (a), remove the number preceding each definition and revise the definitions for "Qualifying country" and "Qualifying country end product;

c. In Alternate I, remove the clause date "(DEC 2010)" and add in its place "(OCT 2011)" and in paragraph (a), remove the numbers preceding each definition.

252.225-7001  Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program.

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Qualifying country means a country with a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding or international agreement with the United States in which both countries agree to remove barriers to purchases of supplies produced in the other country or services performed by sources of the other country, and the memorandum or agreement complies, where applicable, with the requirements of section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776) and with 10 U.S.C. 2457. Accordingly, the following are qualifying countries:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Qualifying country end product means-

(i) An unmanufactured end product mined or produced in a qualifying country; or

(ii) An end product manufactured in a qualifying country if-

(A) The cost of the following types of components exceeds 50 percent of the cost of all its components:

(1) Components mined, produced, or manufactured in a qualifying country.

(2) Components mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States.

(3) Components of foreign origin of a class or kind for which the Government has determined that sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities of a satisfactory quality are not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States; or

(B) The end product is a COTS item.

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