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United States of America: Buy-American and other trade-related provisions in budget bill

Announcement

23 Mar 2018

Most of the trade-related items in this budget bill reiterate existing Buy-American requirements.

 

 

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Number of interventions

5

3 certainly harmful

1 likely harmful

1 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

23 Mar 2018

Revocation date:

30 Sep 2018

Updated: 23 Mar 2018
Controls on credit operations

Under Section 7025, none of the funds appropriated made available to the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation shall be obligated or expended to finance any loan, any a...

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Updated: 23 Mar 2018
Export-related non-tariff measure, nes

Under Section 410, western red cedar timber sales in Alaska’s Region 10 which is surplus to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available to domestic processors in t...

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Updated: 23 Mar 2018
Public procurement localisation

On March 23, 2018 President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R.1625), which is now Public Law No. 115-141. The bill generally makes appropriations for operations o...

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Implementation date

23 Mar 2018

Revocation date:

30 Sep 2018

Updated: 23 Mar 2018
Public procurement localisation

Section 8059 allows the Secretary of Defense, on a case-by-case basis, to waive with respect to a foreign country each limitation on the procurement of defense items from foreign sources provided i...

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Implementation date

01 Jan 2018

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2020

Updated: 23 Mar 2018
Import tariff

Section 501 of the bill reauthorizes the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which had expired on December 31, 2017. It is now renewed through December 31, 2020, and allows for retroactiv...

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