---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 569f"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "569f"
heading: "Debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/569f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §569f. Debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels


If the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) determines that a person has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a “Made in America” inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the United States which is not made in the United States and which is used in a civil works project of the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall debar the person from contracting with the Federal Government for a period of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years. For purposes of this section, the term “debar” has the meaning that term has under [section 4654(c) of title 10](/usc/10/4654.md?p=c).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–580, title II, § 226, Oct. 31, 1992, 106 Stat. 4838; Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title XVII, § 1702(l)(6), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2160.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 117–81 substituted “section 4654(c)” for “section 2393(c)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 3 of Pub. L. 102–580, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.