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<ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">252.225-7045</ph> Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements.</title>
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<title class="- topic/title "><ph props="autonumber" class="- topic/ph ">252.225-7045</ph> Balance of Payments Program—Construction Material Under Trade Agreements.</title>
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<p class="- topic/p ">Basic. As prescribed in
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<p outputclass="Ctr_SmCaps" class="- topic/p ">BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROGRAM—CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL UNDER TRADE AGREEMENTS—BASIC (JAN 2023)</p>
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<p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(a<i class="+ topic/ph hi-d/i ">) Definitions</i>. As used in this clause—</p>
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<p class="- topic/p ">“Caribbean Basin country construction material” means a construction material that—</p>
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<p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p "><ph props="autonumber" class="-topic/ph">(i)</ph> A commercial product (as defined in paragraph (1) of the definition of “commercial product” in section 2.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation);</p>
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<p class="- topic/p ">“Construction material” means an article, material, or supply brought to the construction site by the Contractor or a subcontractor for incorporation into the building or work. The term also includes an item brought to the site preassembled from articles, materials, or supplies. However, emergency life safety systems, such as emergency lighting, fire alarm, and audio evacuation systems, that are discrete systems incorporated into a public building or work and that are produced as complete systems, are evaluated as a single and distinct construction material regardless of when or how the individual parts or components of those systems are delivered to the construction site. Materials purchased directly by the Government are supplies, not construction material.</p>
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<p outputclass="List3" class="- topic/p "><ph props="autonumber" class="-topic/ph">(i)</ph> An unmanufactured construction material mined or produced in the United States; or</p>
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cost of all its components. The cost of iron and steel is the cost of the iron or
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forgings utilized in the manufacture of the product and a good faith estimate of the
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cost of iron or steel components excluding COTS fasteners.</p>
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<p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(c) The Contractor shall use only domestic, SC/CASA state, or designated country construction material other than Bahrainian or Mexican construction material in performing this contract, except for—</p>
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<p outputclass="List1" class="- topic/p ">(d) If the Contractor is from an SC/CASA state, the Contractor shall inform its government of its participation in this acquisition and that it generally will not have such opportunity in the future unless its government provides reciprocal procurement opportunities to U.S. products and services and suppliers of such products and services.</p>
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