# "Buy American" Requirement
> **Rural Utilities Service** · Final rule. · Published 2018-11-27 · Effective 2018-11-27 · 83 FR 60729
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-25815
- **Category:** rural-development
- **Sub-agency:** Rural Utilities Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 60729
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1787
- **Publication date:** 2018-11-27
- **Effective date:** 2018-11-27
## Abstract

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), a Rural Development Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), hereinafter referred to as RUS or the Agency, is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to address its "Buy American" requirement. This will codify long-standing RUS requirements which Agency borrowers have been required to follow pursuant to statute, bulletin, and contract as early as the 1950s. RUS will rescind Bulletin 43-9:344-3, " `Buy American' Requirement," when this regulation becomes effective.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/27/2018-25815/buy-american-requirement)
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