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Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter XVII → Part 1787
§1787.1 General.
§1787.2 Definitions.
§1787.3 Products constituting a portion of a purchase order or contract.
§1787.4 Unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies.
§1787.5 Eligible countries.
§1787.6 Nondomestic products.
§1787.7 Components.
§1787.8 Purchase of nondomestic products.
§1787.9 Waivers.
§1787.10 Applications for specific waivers.
§1787.11 Cost differential.
§1787.12 Non-availability or shortages.
§1787.13 Public interest or impracticality.
§1787.14 General waivers.
Source: 83 FR 60730, Nov. 27, 2018, unless otherwise noted.
(2) Contains components manufactured in the United States or in any eligible country consisting of more than 50 percent of the total cost of all components used in the product.
The United State Trade Representative (USTR) determines what countries are eligible countries with respect to purchases made by electric borrowers or telecommunications borrowers. A particular country may be determined to be an eligible country for purchases made by telecommunications borrowers, for electric borrowers, or both. RUS maintains the latest Federal Register notice on its website which sets out the list of Eligible Countries for each RUS program at https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/UEP__Engineering__EligibleCountries.pdf.
An RUS Borrower may only use loan funds to purchase a nondomestic product if a waiver pursuant to §1787.10 has been received by the Administrator before entering into a contract with the vendor. Should the Administrator deny the waiver request, the RUS Borrower must use its own funds for the expenditure.
Under limited circumstances the Administrator may waive the Buy American requirement with respect to a specific contract entered into between an RUS Borrower and a third party which will be paid for with loan funds, subject to §§1787.10 through 1787.14.
By application pursuant to §1787.10, the Administrator may waive the Buy American requirement if the cost of the domestic product is unreasonable. Given that RUS loans terms normally range from 20 to 35 years, and that additional costs will be magnified with interest over these terms, the Administrator has determined that if the lowest bid or offered price is a nondomestic bid that is at least 6percent lower than the next lowest bid or offered price, the RUS Borrower may request a cost differential waiver. With respect to contracts that are not required to be bid, prices of market-available, domestic products must be used for comparison in a request for waiver.
By application pursuant to §1787.10, the Administrator may waive the Buy American requirement upon a showing that there is no domestic product available in the market in sufficient and reasonable quantities and of satisfactory quality, and that such shortage of suitable domestic alternatives jeopardizes the project being completed on budget and/or according to scheduled planning. A lack of responsive and responsible bids to a well-publicized request for bids will be presumed to meet the conditions of a non-availability waiver. With respect to contracts that are not required to be bid, sufficient evidence must be presented to the Administrator in order to make a determination.
(a) By application pursuant to §1787.10, the Administrator may waive the Buy American requirement upon a showing that application of the requirement would be inconsistent with the public interest or impractical for the RUS Borrower. With respect to impracticality, an RUS Borrower may request a waiver upon a showing that the domestic product is incompatible or impractical to integrate with existing, significant capital infrastructure or existing, critical software already in use. Notwithstanding, the burden shall rest with the RUS Borrower to present how the use of the domestic product would create a hardship or negatively impact its project.