International Trade: Foreign Sourcing in Government Procurement

Abstract

Governments around the world spend trillions of dollars to purchase goods and servicesand some of those purchases are made from foreign firms. The U.S. and key trade partners have signed pacts like the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and NAFTA to open their government purchasing to international competition. Among governments we reviewed, 219% of their procurement was from foreign sources. In 2015, the U.S. likely procured over twice as much from key trade partners as those countries did from U.S. firmsan estimated $5 billion vs. $2 billion in contracts. Canada and Mexico awarded most of the foreign contracts that U.S. firms won.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1152982

Entities

People

  • Kimberly Gianopoulos

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • European Union
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • International Trade
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • Public Administration
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Social Media
  • United Kingdom
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Economics
  • Political science

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • International Relations and European Studies