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The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association said last week that President Biden’s executive order to federal government agencies to “maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in, and services offered in, the United States” should be applied to the purchase of beef for domestic nutrition assistance programs.
In a letter to Michael Wooten, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, USCA President Brooke Miller wrote, “Currently, there exists a loophole which allows imported beef product, most often lean ground trim from South America, to be transported to our borders; undergo a ‘significant transformation,’ which can be as insignificant as trimming, rewrapping, or blending a small percentage of domestic product; and then claim the ‘Product of the U.S.A.’ label on the final product.
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On Jan. 25, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO), “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.” This EO initiates the implementation of Biden’s campaign promise to Buy American, including his commitment to “tighten domestic content rules” and “crack down on waivers to Buy American requirements.”
The EO implements a more consistent and centralized approach to waiver review by establishing a new Made in America office and director role at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The EO also initiates several key reviews, which could result in significant changes to current practice, including potential changes to the domestic preference requirements, revocation of exceptions applicable to certain commercial information technology (IT) and revisions to the list of nonavailable items.
Executive Order 14005
Not even one week into the Biden Administration’s tenure, Buy American rules are yet again taking center stage as a fundamental policy objective. On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14005 entitled “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” which sets forth the new Administration’s policy of utilizing the federal procurement process to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials that are US-origin. Executive Order 14005 takes aim at overhauling “Made in America Laws,” which it defines broadly as inclusive of all statutes, regulations, rules, and Executive Orders relating to federal financial assistance awards or federal procurement known interchangeably as Buy America or Buy American rules which provide a preference for purchase of domestic goods and materials that are US-origin. But unlike Executive Order 13788 issued by the Trump Administration making changes to Buy America rules, P
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After 50 years of incremental progress in making its purchasing more sustainable, the federal government still faces tremendous challenges to making acquisitions value sustainability, reduce carbon and halt climate changes to our environment. Every decision the government makes with its $600 billion of annual purchasing power has an impact it could and should be a positive one.
Recently, a federal procurement official said, We can’t just keep identifying individual products to preference if we expect to make a difference. For 50 years, the federal government has identified individual products with single environmental attributes for purchasing preference. It started with 10 recycled products and moved onto identifying products more energy-efficient than others. Then, it determined that products made with biobased feedstock such as corn and soybeans are preferable to petroleum-based products and continued identifying thousands of individual products for f