---
type: "LegalText"
title: "33 U.S.C. § 569f"
description: "Debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
section: "569f"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 569f"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc33@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s569f"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-33/usc33.xml"
source_hash: "4ab8b87ba3f7d8dab23121fcdea530b80e91a2a6ec2548f00e1613a4e22f5024"
raw_snapshot_hash: "de3d130b31eae77f8c0fc593f61b7287899297718d678d500eea123559828523"
text_hash: "d6aad9ac9d019c3787d9ef68c70a8a06928173b6a5c3899d572e74046e1c1008"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 33 U.S.C. § 569f - Debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels

## Text

If the Secretary 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, the Secretary 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.

(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

Amendments2021—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.