Goods Outsourced Overseas
Reaching over 150 pages, the President’s recent jobs proposal is no short feat. It’s packed with so many plans, initiatives, and regulations in fact, reading it in one sitting might bring about temporary insanity. That, of course, is said from experience.
After tweeting our own interpretations of this bill within 5 hour’s time, brains were frazzled. And admittedly, little stuck in memory. What did make a denting impression, however, was Obama’s repeated attempt to disqualify states from funding if and when projects failed to use iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in the United States.
Goods Produced in the United States
In Section 4. Buy American — Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods, it states:
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States.
Parts of that section make provisions for offshored goods when insourcing or securing goods manufactured onshore would cause a hardship due to lack of sufficient quantity and/or quality (or even affordability). But getting an exemption doesn’t look easy. Immunity requires Federal approval.
Obama’s Buy American Initiative
Now while we support outsourcing, we additionally support what the President is asking for here. We support it so much, we wrote about it several times prior:
Those links support what we think about outsourcing, both onshore and off. But we want to know what you think. Leave a comment to tell us what impact this bill may have on the entire outsourcing industry if it’s passed. Or simply make your opinion known through this short poll.
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