Sec. 843. Amend requirement to buy certain metals from American sources
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Section 4863 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 842, is further amended— in subsection (d)— in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: any specialty metal procured as mill product or incorporated into a component other than an end item pursuant to this subsection shall be melted or produced— in the United States; in the country from which the mill product or component is procured; or in another country covered under subparagraph (1)(B). ; by redesignating subsections
(l)and
(m)as subsections
(m)and (n), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(k)the following new subsection: The Secretary of Defense shall require that, for any system or component for which the provenance of materials must be tracked to comply with safety regulations concerning flight, the supplier of such system or component shall inform the government if any of the materials were known to be manufactured or processed in— China; Iran; North Korea; or Russia. Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report indicating how much specialty metal has been acquired and placed into systems of the Department of Defense from the countries described in paragraph (1). .