FAR clauses/Part 25/Checked 15 Sep 2026

FAR 52.225-1
Buy American—Supplies

Clause date

OCT 2022

Prescribed at

FAR 25.1101(a)(1). Insert in solicitations and contracts valued above the micro-purchase threshold but not above $50,000, and in those above $50,000 if none of the clauses prescribed in 25.1101(b) and (c) apply, except when the solicitation is restricted to domestic end products under subpart 6.3, a Buy American exception applies to supplies for use in the United States, or the supplies are for use outside the United States; Alternate I when the SPE allows an alternate domestic content test.

Applies to

Supply contracts above the micro-purchase threshold, subject to the 25.1101(a)(1) exceptions and the $50,000 split.

Flowdown

No flowdown required
52.225-1 contains no paragraph requiring its insertion in subcontracts. It is not listed in 52.244-6(c)(1) or 52.212-5(e)(1).

Full text

FAR 52.225-1 on Acquisition.gov

… 41 U.S.C. chapter 83, Buy American, provides a preference for domestic end products for supplies acquired for use in the United States. In accordance with 41 U.S.C. 1907, the domestic content test of the Buy American statute is waived for an end product that is a COTS item (see 12.505(a)(1)), except that for an end product that consists wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the domestic content test is applied only to the iron and steel content of the end product, excluding COTS fasteners. …

From the clause · Codified FAR · FAC 2026-01

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