Contract Specialist Practice Exam

The Buy American Act requires federal purchases to be domestic end products, so it restricts items that are foreign-made. In other words, supplies that are not domestic end products are the ones limited by the statute, unless an exception applies. Domestic end products are those manufactured in the United States, often with a substantial portion of the work or value added here. Therefore, the restricted category described by the statute is non-domestic end products—the foreign-made items that would otherwise be eligible only under specific exceptions.