Tag: DoD Reciprocal Procurement Memoranda

Trump’s Buy American Order for Medicines

On August 6th, President Trump issued his long-promised Buy American executive order (EO) on medicines. The Executive Order on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States seeks to

Trade Implications of the Buy American Act of 1933

backgrounder(yellow)

The Buy American Act of 1933 (BAA) is the example, most frequently cited by U.S. trading partners, of American protectionism. This major domestic preference law governs the procurement of goods by the federal government. It was enacted during the Great