Product Compliance

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the 'Bipartisan Infrastructure Law', was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This law, which includes the Build America, Buy America Act, established standards to ensure that United States taxpayer dollars to be invested in public infrastructure should not be used to reward companies that have moved operations, investment dollars, and jobs to foreign countries – particularly those that do not share the commitments of the United States to environmental, worker, and workplace safety protections.

Specifically, the Build America, Buy America Act (Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, Part 1) requires federally-funded infrastructure projects give 'procurement preference' to iron, steel, construction materials, and manufactured products that are produced in the United States.

For manufactured products, the term 'produced in the United States', is understood to mean:

The product was manufactured in the United States; and the cost of the components that are mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States is greater than 55 percent of the total cost of all components, [unless another standard for determining the minimum amount of domestic content of the manufactured product has been established under applicable law or regulation.]¹

For plastic and polymer-based construction materials (e.g. PEX tube), the term 'produced in the United States', is understood to mean:

All manufacturing processes, from initial combination of constituent plastic or polymer-based inputs, or, where applicable, constituent composite materials, until the item is in its final form, occurred in the United States.

Sioux Chief uses the requirements established in the Build America, Buy America Act to maintain a list of its manufactured products and construction materials that meet or exceed the definition of being 'Produced in the United States'. The current list of items is attached. The list is also available on our website and is updated monthly. Sioux Chief asserts that as of the date of this document, the items on this list comply with the requirements of the Build America, Buy America Act for manufactured products and/or construction materials that are Produced in the United States.

If there are any questions, or additional information needed, please contact our Regional Sales Support team, or your local Sioux Chief Representative.