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DFARS 252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

The text (APR 2022) ends at (d)(2) and has no subcontract paragraph; but since the restriction reaches components, the prime can only comply by binding the supplier — which is why it appears in 20/43 corpus documents: flow-down by necessity, not by regulation

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 2026-08-04 · edition APR 2022 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  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.

    • Origin statements for the fiber, yarn, fabric or food ingredient in what you supply, from whoever grew, spun, wove or processed it — evidence the prime weighs, not paper the clause names

      DFARS 252.225-7012

When it is used

Broadly prescribed, including FAR Part 12 (225.7002-3(a)); the Berry restriction applies to acquisitions above the SAT (exception at 225.7002-2(a)). Covered items: food, clothing and its materials, tents/tarpaulins/covers, cotton and natural fibers, silk, synthetic and coated fabrics, canvas, wool, and individual equipment (FSC 8465). It applies to the end product AND its components — which is why it flows down the entire chain even without a mandate. (Trigger corrected 2026-08-05, backlog item 12: the covered-item leg was encoded as `workType == supplies`, so every supplies subcontract above the SAT tripped the Berry Amendment whatever it delivered. List membership is a fact about the line items and no profile field carries it; the leg is structural now. Prescription re-verified against acquisition.gov, DFARS 225.7002-3(a).)

Read closely

(b) lists the ten covered categories and requires them grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States, reaching the component and not only the finished article — there is no qualifying-country valve except for chemical protective clothing and certain synthetic fibers. (c) carries the exceptions, including items at FAR 25.104(a), incidental natural fiber up to 10 percent of the price, and food processed in the United States. (d) is the separate rule for fish, shellfish, and seafood.

The 17 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 287143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 390155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 429233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 148560Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 103166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2461166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2399168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2497255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1281243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2254122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1127240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2336106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1810273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1155107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 71689AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3170178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1011

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7012, 225.7002-2 and 225.7002-3 (verified 2026-08-04)

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.