Published April 18, 2022

Biden to Require U.S.-made Steel and Iron for Infrastructure

The administration hopes to create more jobs, ease supply chain strains and reduce the reliance on China and other nations with interests that diverge from America’s.


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The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.

New guidance issued Monday requires that the material purchased — whether it’s for a bridge, a highway, a water pipe or broadband internet — be produced in the U.S. However, the rules also set up a process to waive those requirements in case there are not enough domestic producers or the material costs too much, with the goal of issuing fewer waivers over time as U.S. manufacturing capacity increases.

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