{"data":{"id":"us/48-cfr-225.872-1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"48 CFR 225.872-1","heading":"225.872-1 General.","body":"(a) As a result of memoranda of understanding and other international agreements, DoD has determined it inconsistent with the public interest to apply restrictions of the Buy American statute or the Balance of Payments Program to the acquisition of qualifying country end products from the following qualifying countries:\nAustralia\nBelgium\nCanada\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nEgypt\nEstonia\nFederal Republic of Germany\nFinland\nFrance\nGreece\nIsrael\nItaly\nJapan\nLatvia\nLithuania\nLuxembourg\nNetherlands\nNorway\nPoland\nPortugal\nSlovenia\nSpain\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nTurkey\nUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n(b) Individual acquisitions of qualifying country end products from the following qualifying country may, on a purchase-by-purchase basis (see 225.872-4), be exempted from application of the Buy American statute and the Balance of Payments Program as inconsistent with the public interest: Austria.\n(c) The determination in paragraph (a) of this subsection does not limit the authority of the Secretary concerned to restrict acquisitions to domestic sources or reject an otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying country source when considered necessary for national defense reasons.","path":["Title 48—Federal Acquisition Regulations System","CHAPTER 2—DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE","SUBCHAPTER D—SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS","PART 225—FOREIGN ACQUISITION","Subpart 225.8—Other International Agreements and Coordination"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-48.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:29Z","sha256":"73463c4905ac698258ccd0f2d43179711a6d3f91d5542bbc9dd0b530dfbd0862","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/48-cfr-225.872","next":"us/48-cfr-225.872-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}