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Title 48: Federal Acquisition Regulations System
CHAPTER 2: DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
SUBCHAPTER D: SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS
PART 225: FOREIGN ACQUISITION
225.003 - Definitions.
As used in this part?
(1) Caribbean Basin country end product includes petroleum or any product derived from petroleum.
(2) Defense equipment means any equipment, item of supply, component, or end product purchased by DoD.
(3) Domestic concern means?
(i) A concern incorporated in the United States (including a subsidiary that is incorporated in the United States, even if the parent corporation is a foreign concern; or
(ii) An unincorporated concern having its principal place of business in the United States.
(4) Domestic end product has the meaning given in the clauses at 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program; and 252.225-7036, Buy American Act?Free Trade Agreements?Balance of Payments Program, instead of the meaning in FAR 25.003.
(5) Eligible product means, instead of the definition in FAR 25.003?
(i) A foreign end product that?
(A) Is in a category listed in 225.401-70; and
(B) Is not subject to discriminatory treatment, due to the applicability of a trade agreement to a particular acquisition;
(ii) A foreign construction material that is not subject to discriminatory treatment, due to the applicability of a trade agreement to a particular acquisition; or
(iii) A foreign service that is not subject to discriminatory treatment, due to the applicability of a trade agreement to a particular acquisition.
(6) Foreign concern means any concern other than a domestic concern.
(7) Free Trade Agreement country does not include Oman.
(8) Nonqualifying country means a country other than the United States or a qualifying country.
(9) Nonqualifying country component means a component mined, produced, or manufactured in a nonqualifying country.
(10) Qualifying country means a country with a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding or international agreement with the United States in which both countries agree to remove barriers to purchases of supplies produced in the other country or services performed by sources of the other country, and the memorandum or agreement complies, where applicable, with the requirements of section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776) and with 10 U.S.C. 2457. Accordingly, the following are qualifying countries:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
(11) Qualifying country component and qualifying country end product are defined in the clauses at 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program; and 252.225-7036, Buy American Act?Free Trade Agreements?Balance of Payments Program. Qualifying country end product is also defined in the clause at 252.225-7021, Trade Agreements.
(12) Qualifying country offer means an offer of a qualifying country end product, including the price of transportation to destination.
(13) Source, when restricted by words such as foreign, domestic, or qualifying country, means the actual manufacturer or producer of the end product or component.
[68 FR 15618, Mar. 31, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 1927, Jan. 13, 2004; 70 FR 73153, Dec. 9, 2005; 73 FR 76971, Dec. 18, 2008; 74 FR 37651, July 29, 2009; 75 FR 34945, June 21, 2010]
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