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Carlton Fields

Executive Order Seeks to Build Resilience in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

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On August 13, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening America’s pharmaceutical supply chains. Officially titled “Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience by Filling the Strategic...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FHWA to Eliminate Buy America Manufactured Products Waiver for Federally-Assisted Highway Projects

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On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a final rule discontinuing its longstanding Buy America waiver for manufactured products used in...more

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Resetting the “Buy American” Waiver List: Federal Government Slashes Exceptions to Domestic Procurement

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With the goal of bolstering domestic U.S. manufacturers and supply chains, the Federal Government has announced revisions to the “Buy American” program that will pressure U.S. agencies and companies to work with domestic...more

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Brace Yourself: DEA’s Final Rule on Quotas Squeezes Inventory Levels and Signals Further Supply Restrictions

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On August 31, 2023, DEA published a final rule (“Final Rule”) regarding its management of controlled substance and List 1 Chemical (“L1 Chemical”) quotas for DEA-registered manufacturers. The Final Rule largely tracks DEA’s...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Unraveling the Confusion: Buy America, Buy American, Made in USA – Part 2

Last month, I offered the first in a series of blog posts that attempt to simplify the various laws that are often described as a single law: “Buy America,” “Buy American,” “Made in the USA,” “Made in America,” and “Build...more

Maynard Nexsen

Buy American Act Content Requirements Are Tightening Again, Are You Prepared?

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Numerous changes to the Buy American Act (“BAA”) have been proposed and implemented in recent years, with another one coming this week.  Beginning today, on October 25, 2022, the domestic content requirement for components in...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Three-Pronged Approach: The NDAA Prioritizes a Pro-Domestic Procurement Policy

On January 1, 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (“NDAA”) was passed by Congress and became law, following an attempted veto by former President Donald Trump. The NDAA’s primary purpose is to...more

Morgan Lewis

Biden Leaves in Place Key Portions of Buy American Act Changes, Targets New Domestic End Product Test and Services

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President Joe Biden issued on January 25 an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers (EO). This EO leaves in place key portions of the prior administration’s July 15, 2019...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Executive Order on Essential Medicines: A Timeline and Overview of Key Provisions

On August 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States.” The far-reaching EO seeks to ensure the domestic...more

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Buy American EO applies domestic preferences for "essential medicines" and "medical countermeasures"

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On August 6, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump issued his much-anticipated "Buy American" Executive Order (EO), intended to increase and support domestic manufacture and Federal government procurement of "essential...more

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Business integrity for consumer companies

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Consumer companies around the world are incorporating sustainability, business integrity, and brand purpose into their business operations. This can include procuring ethically sourced products, ensuring fair pay, or...more

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In a world of economic change, supply chain contracts are impacted

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When it comes to supply chains for complex conglomerates, thorough due diligence is key. That might sound obvious – of course you should know information about your suppliers and customers....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Evolution of TAA Compliance Post-Energizer – “Substantially Transformed” Has Substantially Changed

Trade Agreements Act compliance changed fundamentally three years ago. Or, so we thought on December 7, 2016, when the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”), the appellate body for country of origin determinations issued...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Executive Order Seeks to Expand Buy American Requirements Imposed on Federally Funded Infrastructure Projects

• On January 31, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order that directs federal departments and agencies to take steps to encourage recipients of federal financial assistance for a broad range of infrastructure projects...more

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USTR Requests Input on Impact of Trade Agreements on Government Procurement

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On August 21, 2017, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a request for public comment on the impact of government procurement provisions of U.S. trade...more

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Procurement Pressure: The Convergence Of Supply And Compliance

With a growing number of complex regulations and directives, the only thing that is constant right now in the regulatory environment is change. Supply chain leaders and compliance professionals alike continue to grapple with...more

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