{"data":{"id":"us/48-cfr-25.402","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"48 CFR 25.402","heading":"25.402 General.","body":"(a)(1) The Trade Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) provides the authority for the President to waive the Buy American statute and other discriminatory provisions for eligible products from countries that have signed an international trade agreement with the United States, or that meet certain other criteria, such as being a least developed country. The President has delegated this waiver authority to the U.S. Trade Representative. In acquisitions covered by the WTO GPA, Free Trade Agreements, or the Israeli Trade Act, the U.S. Trade Representativehas waived the Buy American statute and other discriminatory provisions for eligible products. Offers of eligible products receive equal consideration with domestic offers.\n(2) The contracting officer shall determine the origin of services by the country in which the firm providing the services is established. See Subpart 25.5 for evaluation procedures for supply contracts covered by trade agreements.\n(b) The value of the acquisition is a determining factor in the applicability of trade agreements. Most of these dollar thresholds are subject to revision by the U.S. Trade Representative approximately every 2 years. The various thresholds are summarized as follows:\nTable 1—to Paragraph (b)\nTrade agreement Supply contract (equal to or exceeding) Service contract (equal to or exceeding) Construction contract (equal to or exceeding)\nWTO GPA $174,000 $174,000 $6,683,000\nFTAs:\nAustralia FTA 105,767 105,767 6,683,000\nBahrain FTA 174,000 174,000 13,749,689\nCAFTA-DR (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) 105,767 105,767 6,683,000\nChile FTA 105,767 105,767 6,683,000\nColombia FTA 105,767 105,767 6,683,000\nKorea FTA 100,000 100,000 6,683,000\nMorocco FTA 174,000 174,000 6,683,000\nUSMCA:\n—Mexico 105,767 105,767 13,749,689\nOman FTA 174,000 174,000 13,749,689\nPanama FTA 174,000 174,000 6,683,000\nPeru FTA 174,000 174,000 6,683,000\nSingapore FTA 105,767 105,767 6,683,000\nIsraeli Trade Act 50,000","path":["Title 48—Federal Acquisition Regulations System","CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION","SUBCHAPTER D—SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS","PART 25—FOREIGN ACQUISITION","Subpart 25.4—Trade Agreements"],"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":"8bb38815b42758fd61d9529ab96e13785c63b3ea0f3e760c7a08d215757ec2be","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/48-cfr-25.401","next":"us/48-cfr-25.403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}