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DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American and Balance of Payments Program

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

NO flow-down paragraph — a prime obligation covering end products; in practice, primes flow it down contractually and the sub should know this is the prime's choice, not a mandate

A clause can reach your subcontract without a mandate. Once it is in your document, it is a contract term all the same. The missing mandate is a fact about the regulation. It is not a ruling on your order.

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition FEB 2024 (Basic and Alt I) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something somebody else has to issue you

    The same day if the issuer is one of your own suppliers, months if it is an assessor or an underwriter.

    • Country-of-origin statements from the suppliers of those components — the origin is fixed at their plant, and the prime asking for them sets what is enough

      DFARS 252.225-7001

  2. Something you write2

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • A written notice to the buyer identifying any item that does not meet the domestic-source requirement, so the buyer can determine whether it is acceptable

      Owed when the order adds a rider requiring nonconforming items to be identified in writing; the clause's own (a) to (d) name no notice

      the order's clause list, at its 252.225-7001 line

    • A component-cost table per part number, giving each component's country and cost, because the domestic share is arithmetic over that table and not over the price

      DFARS 252.225-7001

When it is used

225.1101(10) prescribes it in place of FAR 52.225-1 in solicitations and contracts for supplies, including FAR part 12 — and lists the acquisitions where it is NOT used, chiefly where the Trade Agreements regime governs instead, where every line item is already required to be a domestic or qualifying-country end product under subpart 225.70, or where a Buy American / Balance of Payments exception covers the acquisition. Required domestic content: > 65% (deliveries 2024–2028), 75% starting in 2029; qualifying countries count as domestic; component test waived for COTS (except the iron/steel rule). (Trigger corrected 2026-08-05, backlog item 12: the entry's only condition was `workType == supplies`, which both decided the clause outright for any supplies buy — the second leg, that no 225.1101(10) exception applies, was in this summary and in no condition — and ruled it OUT for `electronics` and `metal-manufacturing`, which are supply contracts in every sense the prescription uses the word. Prescription verified against acquisition.gov, DFARS 225.1101.)

Read closely

(c) is the delivery restriction and it reads on what was specified in the certificate provision. The clause names neither a table nor a supplier statement: they are what it takes to stand behind (c), rather than paperwork it lists. Where an order adds a rider — the BlueForge purchase order requires any nonconforming item to be identified to the buyer in writing for a determination of acceptability — that notice is a term of the order, not a paragraph of the clause.

The 14 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 276143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 383155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 419233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 142260Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 89255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1275243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2184122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1124240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2468106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1726273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1149107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 68289AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3146178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 983

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7001, codified text read at DFARS Change 5/7/2026, prescribed at 225.1101(2) with designation (FEB 2024) across a Basic and Alternates I, II and III, of which Alternates I and III are the two that add South Caucasus and SC/CASA. RFO class deviation 2026-O0041 (DFARS part 225, effective 2026-02-17) prescribes the clause at 225.601(2) at the same designation and gives those two DIFFERENT dispositions, which a reader should not collapse: it prints Alternate I. [Reserved] in its own words, and it does not print Alternate III at all. So the deviation carries the Basic and Alternate II, and the terms South Caucasus and SC/CASA are absent from all 272 pages of it. READ THIS ENTRY AGAINST ITS OWN version FIELD, WHICH DISAGREES WITH BOTH REGIMES: version reads FEB 2024 (Basic and Alt I), where the codified text carries a Basic and three alternates and the deviation reserves Alternate I, so the single alternate that field names beside the Basic is the one the DoD regime prints as reserved. A reader whose own document cites this clause with an alternate has to check which alternate the regime governing that document actually prints: the codified text carries Alternates I, II and III, all at (FEB 2024), while deviation 2026-O0041 prints only the Basic and Alternate II. A version is a ruling and is left to one. Both regimes read against their primary sources (verified 2026-08-09)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.