Government Procurement Dollar Thresholds Published by USTR
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released the U.S. dollar procurement thresholds it will allow from foreign firms under the World Trade Organization agreement on procurement, United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement and the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
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They are effective Jan. 1 for calendar years 2026 and 2027.
The Federal Register notice says that because of the federal government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has not yet released data needed to calculate the thresholds for procurement under the USMCA; the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement; the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement; the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement; the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement; the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement; the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement; and the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Those countries will stay under existing procurement thresholds until BLS releases the data, expected this month, and another Federal Register notice with those thresholds is published.