Amendment101st Congress
Amendment authorized the Secretary of Transportation to award contracts to domestic firms, which under normal competitive procedures would be awarded to foreign firms, when the final product of the domestic firm would be completely assembled in the United States with 50% of the final product produced domestically, and no more than a 6% difference existed between the foreign and domestic bids.
- Amendment Number
- 36
- Description
- Amendment authorized the Secretary of Transportation to award contracts to domestic firms, which under normal competitive procedures would be awarded to foreign firms, when the final product of the domestic firm would be completely assembled in the United States with 50% of the final product produced domestically, and no more than a 6% difference existed between the foreign and domestic bids.
- Purpose
- An amendment to permit the Transportation Department to award a contract to a higher-bidding U.S. firm instead of a foreign firm if the State and Commerce Departments and the U.S. Trade Representative determines that such a preference is in the public interest.
- Congress
- 101
- Type
- HAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- May 2, 1989
- Latest Action Text
- On agreeing to the Traficant amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.
- Latest Action Time
- 14:41:19
- Submitted Date
- May 2, 1989
- Chamber
- House of Representatives
- Update Date
- Jul 10, 2021