WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), in collaboration with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), announced new action to remove nearly two dozen foreign product offerings from GSA Advantage!, the list of approved vendors for federal agency procurement. The action comes as a result of meetings held at the White House Small Business Summit, and in response to President Donald J. Trump’s recent directive and executive order requiring federal agencies to prioritize purchasing American-made goods, in support of American workers and businesses.
During the White House Small Business Summit, President Trump and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler met with New York-based Sherrill Manufacturing where the small business raised concerns that China-based companies were falsely marketing products on GSA Advantage as “Made in America,” even though they were only partially assembled or finished in the United States.
As a result, federal agencies risked purchasing foreign-made goods under misleading claims of domestic origin in violation of the Buy American Act, the Trade Agreements Act, and related country-of-origin requirements, putting companies like Sherrill Manufacturing—the only U.S. manufacturer of stainless steel flatware that is 100% Made in America—at a distinct disadvantage in the federal marketplace. The Berry Amendment (10 U.S.C. § 4862) mandates that covered items purchased by the U.S. Department of War (Dow), including stainless steel flatware, must be grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced entirely in the United States to support American warfighters and critical supply chains.
At the request of President Trump, Administrator Loeffler took immediate action to investigate the imposter product offerors. In coordination with SBA, the GSA identified and de-listed 22 falsely labeled foreign-made flatware product offerings from the Advantage! platform.
“As part of our commitment to rebuilding American industry and supply chains, the Trump SBA believes that every taxpayer dollar spent by the federal government should go to support American businesses, workers, and products. So when foreign companies were caught falsely claiming ‘Made in America’ status in the federal procurement system, President Trump directed the SBA and GSA to take aggressive action,” said SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler. “In less than three weeks, we investigated and removed nearly two dozen foreign companies that were cheating federal agencies and taxpayers alike. Consistent with a zero-tolerance policy on waste, fraud and abuse, the Trump Administration is sending a clear message that we will not tolerate foreign imposters that hijack Made in America labels, or those that undercut honest, generational, American small businesses like Sherrill Manufacturing.”
