The Berry Amendment: Requiring Defense Procurement to Come from Domestic Sources

Abstract

In order to protect the U.S. industrial base during periods of adversity and war, Congress passed domestic source restrictions as part of the 1941 Fifth Supplemental Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriations Act; these provisions later became the Berry Amendment. The Berry Amendment requires DOD to give preference in procurement to domestically produced, manufactured, or home grown products, notably food, clothing, fabrics, and specialty metals. The Berry Amendment (Title 10 United States Code (U.S.C.) Section 2533a, Requirement to Buy Certain Articles from American Sources; Exceptions) contains a number of domestic source restrictions that prohibit DOD from acquiring food, clothing, fabrics (including ballistic fibers), specialty metals, stainless steel, and hand or measuring tools that are not grown or produced in the United States.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 26, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486545

Entities

People

  • Valerie B. Grasso

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Body Armor
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Fabrics
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Organizations
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Textiles
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Materials Science
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting