TAA Compliant

TAA compliance — Trade Agreements Act compliance — determines whether a product can be sold to the US federal government under GSA schedules and other federal procurement vehicles. The TAA requires that products either be manufactured in the US or substantially transformed in a designated country. China, Russia, India, and most of Southeast Asia are not on the designated country list, which means products manufactured there generally don't qualify for federal procurement regardless of where the vendor is headquartered. The "substantially transformed" test is fact-specific and frequently litigated — moving final assembly to a TAA-compliant country doesn't automatically qualify the product if the core manufacturing happened elsewhere. We cover the designated country list, the substantial transformation analysis, and the CBP ruling process for products where origin is genuinely ambiguous.