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FAR 52.225-5 Trade Agreements

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

The clause has no flow-down paragraph — the obligation to deliver only 'U.S.-made or designated country end products' is the prime's, who flows it down contractually (origin certification, mirror clause) because it has no way to comply without binding the supplier

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 NOV 2023 · 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.

    • The manufacturer's origin documentation for every item you sell into the order, resting on where substantial transformation happened — evidence the prime weighs, not paper the clause names

      FAR 52.225-5

When it is used

Goes into the prime's contract when the supplies acquisition is covered by the WTO GPA — prescription 25.1101(c)(1); the TAA threshold is the prime's contract's, not the sub's (it was $174,000 for supplies in the 2024–25 biennium; the 2026–27 value is (unconfirmed)). Reaches the sub as an origin restriction: only US or 'designated country' products.

Read closely

(b) is the delivery restriction and it reads on what was specified in the offer. The test is substantial transformation rather than a component-cost percentage, so the same part can qualify at one value band and fail at another. China, India, Malaysia and Russia are not designated countries, and a supplier change moves the origin answer with it.

The 13 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 290143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 205155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 225233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 870105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 78255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1049243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1971122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1021240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1913106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1593273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 360107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 332178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 848

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.225-5 and 25.1101(c)(1) (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.