Made in America Week, 2021, 40757-40758 [2021-16301]

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 143 (Thursday, July 29, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 40757-40758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16301]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 10234 of July 26, 2021

                
Made in America Week, 2021

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Made in America Week recognizes a basic idea: when we 
                spend taxpayer dollars, we should buy American products 
                and support American jobs. The Congress passed the Buy 
                American Act almost 90 years ago, but we have never 
                fully lived up to this principle.

                During Made in America Week, we recognize that just as 
                American manufacturing was the Arsenal of Democracy in 
                World War II, American products and services must be 
                part of the engine of American prosperity today. We 
                also reject the defeatist view that the forces of 
                automation and globalization mean we cannot have good-
                paying union jobs here in America.

                My Administration is making ``Buy American'' a policy, 
                not just a promise. We are closing loopholes and 
                strengthening standards to ensure that the future is 
                made in all of America--by all of America's workers--in 
                every region, of every background, in services, 
                manufacturing, and agriculture.

                That is why one of my first acts as President was to 
                sign an Executive Order to tighten existing Buy 
                American policies, and to lay out additional 
                commitments to prevent big corporations and special 
                interests from using loopholes to redirect American 
                taxpayer dollars to foreign companies. And, I have 
                named our Nation's first-ever Made in America Director 
                at our Office of Management and Budget.

                When we Buy American, we will buy from all of America. 
                We will include communities that have historically been 
                left out of Government procurement, Black, Brown, and 
                Native American small businesses and entrepreneurs in 
                every region of the country. We will use a federally 
                funded, national network called the Manufacturing 
                Extension Partnership to help government agencies 
                connect with new domestic suppliers across the country.

                The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated our need for greater 
                manufacturing capacity in areas critical to public 
                health, information and communications technology, and 
                national defense.

                To build our economy back better, we must have an 
                industrial strategy based on public investment in new 
                technologies, including the domestic production of 
                clean energy goods, critical medical supplies, and the 
                innovative industries of the future. We must prioritize 
                the creation of high skill, high value jobs that 
                empower workers and pay family-supporting wages. We 
                must reject short-termism, offshoring, and a race to 
                the bottom. That is why my Administration is committed 
                to using Made in America policies that give America's 
                workers and companies the tools they need to compete 
                and lead globally for decades to come.

                We will send clear market signals so that entrepreneurs 
                make the investments our Nation needs. We will ensure 
                that Made in America preferences are applied 
                consistently and transparently. We will gather data to 
                reveal gaps in our industrial base, and work to close 
                those gaps and boost our economy's productive capacity. 
                And we will ensure that diversity, equity, inclusion, 
                and accessibility are at the center of all of these 
                efforts.

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                My Administration will maximize the Federal 
                Government's use of goods, products, and materials 
                produced in, and services offered in, the United 
                States. These purchases will maximize our efforts to 
                empower workers and strengthen unionization, tackle the 
                climate crisis, and build and rebuild critical supply 
                chains so that we will never again have to rely on 
                imports from unreliable trading partners to combat 
                threats to our public health.

                We will also reduce the need for waivers from Made in 
                America rules by creating incentives for private 
                investment in domestic supply chains in critical 
                industries.

                As we focus on ``Made in America,'' we are committed to 
                strengthening relationships with allies and trading 
                partners. Resilient supply chains must have built in 
                redundancies--a health crisis or natural disaster in 
                one location must never again threaten the global 
                economy. We must work with our trading partners to 
                promote equitable growth, protect workers' rights, and 
                advance environmental justice globally.

                By using Made in America policies as one tool of many 
                to rebuild our industrial base and strengthen critical 
                supply chains, we will help put the American dream 
                within reach for our Nation's families today, and for 
                generations to come.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim July 26 
                through July 30, 2021, as Made in America Week. I call 
                upon all Americans to observe this week and to 
                celebrate with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and 
                activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                sixth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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