Executive Order No. 13788. Buy American and Hire American

• Executive Order No.: 13788
• Published date: 21 April 2017
• Citation: 82 FR 18837
• Date: 18 April 2017
• Section: Presidential Documents
• Issuer: Executive Office of the President

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Vol. 82, No. 76 
Friday, April 21, 2017 
Title 3— 
Executive Order 13788 of April 18, 2017 
The President 
Buy American and Hire American 
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 
laws of the United States of America, and to ensure the faithful execution 
of the laws, it is hereby ordered as follows: 
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this order: 
(a) ‘‘Buy American Laws’’ means all statutes, regulations, rules, and Execu-
tive Orders relating to Federal procurement or Federal grants—including 
those that refer to ‘‘Buy America’’ or ‘‘Buy American’’—that require, or 
provide a preference for, the purchase or acquisition of goods, products, 
or materials produced in the United States, including iron, steel, and manu-
factured goods. 
(b) ‘‘Produced in the United States’’ means, for iron and steel products, 
that all manufacturing processes, from the initial melting stage through 
the application of coatings, occurred in the United States. 
(c) ‘‘Petition beneficiaries’’ means aliens petitioned for by employers to 
become nonimmigrant visa holders with temporary work authorization under 
the H–1B visa program. 
(d) ‘‘Waivers’’ means exemptions from or waivers of Buy American Laws, 
or the procedures and conditions used by an executive department or agency 
(agency) in granting exemptions from or waivers of Buy American Laws. 
(e) ‘‘Workers in the United States’’ and ‘‘United States workers’’ shall 
both be defined as provided at section 212(n)(4)(E) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(n)(4)(E)). 
Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American 
and hire American. 
(a) Buy American Laws. In order to promote economic and national security 
and to help stimulate economic growth, create good jobs at decent wages, 
strengthen our middle class, and support the American manufacturing and 
defense industrial bases, it shall be the policy of the executive branch 
to maximize, consistent with law, through terms and conditions of Federal 
financial assistance awards and Federal procurements, the use of goods, 
products, and materials produced in the United States. 
(b)  Hire American. In order to create higher wages and employment rates 
for workers in the United States, and to protect their economic interests, 
it shall be the policy of the executive branch to rigorously enforce and 
administer the laws governing entry into the United States of workers from 
abroad, including section 212(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(5)). 
Sec. 3.  Immediate Enforcement and Assessment of Domestic Preferences 
According to Buy American Laws. (a) Every agency shall scrupulously mon-
itor, enforce, and comply with Buy American Laws, to the extent they 
apply, and minimize the use of waivers, consistent with applicable law. 
(b) Within 150 days of the date of this order, the heads of all agencies 
shall: 
(i) assess the monitoring of, enforcement of, implementation of, and compli-
ance with Buy American Laws within their agencies; 
(ii) assess the use of waivers within their agencies by type and impact 
on domestic jobs and manufacturing; and 
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(iii) develop and propose policies for their agencies to ensure that, to 
the extent permitted by law, Federal financial assistance awards and Fed-
eral procurements maximize the use of materials produced in the United 
States, including manufactured products; components of manufactured 
products; and materials such as steel, iron, aluminum, and cement. 
(c) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce 
and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, the United States Trade 
Representative, and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, shall issue 
guidance to agencies about how to make the assessments and to develop 
the policies required by subsection (b) of this section. 
(d) Within 150 days of the date of this order, the heads of all agencies 
shall submit findings made pursuant to the assessments required by sub-
section (b) of this section to the Secretary of Commerce and the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget. 
(e) Within 150 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce 
and the United States Trade Representative shall assess the impacts of 
all United States free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization 
Agreement on Government Procurement on the operation of Buy American 
Laws, including their impacts on the implementation of domestic procure-
ment preferences. 
(f) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of 
State, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the United 
States Trade Representative, shall submit to the President a report on Buy 
American that includes findings from subsections (b), (d), and (e) of this 
section. This report shall be submitted within 220 days of the date of 
this order and shall include specific recommendations to strengthen imple-
mentation of Buy American Laws, including domestic procurement pref-
erence policies and programs. Subsequent reports on implementation of 
Buy American Laws shall be submitted by each agency head annually to 
the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget, on November 15, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and in subsequent 
years as directed by the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget. The Secretary of Commerce shall submit 
to the President an annual report based on these submissions beginning 
January 15, 2019. 
Sec. 4.  Judicious Use of Waivers. (a) To the extent permitted by law, public 
interest waivers from Buy American Laws should be construed to ensure 
the maximum utilization of goods, products, and materials produced in 
the United States. 
(b) To the extent permitted by law, determination of public interest waivers 
shall be made by the head of the agency with the authority over the Federal 
financial assistance award or Federal procurement under consideration. 
(c) To the extent permitted by law, before granting a public interest waiver, 
the relevant agency shall take appropriate account of whether a significant 
portion of the cost advantage of a foreign-sourced product is the result 
of the use of dumped steel, iron, or manufactured goods or the use of 
injuriously subsidized steel, iron, or manufactured goods, and it shall inte-
grate any findings into its waiver determination as appropriate. 
Sec. 5.  Ensuring the Integrity of the Immigration System in Order to ‘‘Hire 
American.’’ (a) In order to advance the policy outlined in section 2(b) 
of this order, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary 
of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, as soon as practicable, 
and consistent with applicable law, propose new rules and issue new guid-
ance, to supersede or revise previous rules and guidance if appropriate, 
to protect the interests of United States workers in the administration of 
our immigration system, including through the prevention of fraud or abuse. 
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(b) In order to promote the proper functioning of the H–1B visa program, 
the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, and 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, as soon as practicable, suggest 
reforms to help ensure that H–1B visas are awarded to the most-skilled 
or highest-paid petition beneficiaries. 
Sec. 6.  General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 
to impair or otherwise affect: 
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 
or the head thereof; 
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals; or 
(iii) existing rights or obligations under international agreements. 
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 
subject to the availability of appropriations. 
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 
against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 
employees, or agents, or any other person. 
THE WHITE HOUSE, 
April 18, 2017. 
[FR Doc. 2017–08311 
Filed 4–20–17; 11:15 am] 
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