Made in America Week, 2022

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10425 of July 22, 2022

Made in America Week, 2022

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During Made in America Week, we celebrate American
workers, the products they make, the services they
provide, and the incredible impact they have on our
Nation's economy. Across the world, ``Made in America''
is a badge of quality, and this week we honor the proud
legacy and promising future of American goods,
services, jobs, and innovation--the collective engine
of American prosperity.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it
caused, as well as Vladimir Putin's unjustified and
unprovoked war on Ukraine, have underscored the
importance of a strong and secure domestic industrial
base. We have seen in recent years that when goods made
overseas become unavailable or exorbitantly costly,
American families feel the pain. For years, ``Buy
American'' was a hollow slogan--too many goods and
services paid for by American taxpayers were outsourced
abroad at the expense of American jobs. In my
Administration, ``Buy American'' is an ironclad
promise--and we have taken bold action to make it real.

During my first year in office, we created more
manufacturing jobs on average per month than any other
President has in the last 50 years. Businesses are
investing in American manufacturing and creating
thousands of good-paying union jobs to meet the demands
of our modern economy and rebuild that economy around
working people. We are creating more opportunity for
workers and businesses who have too often been
overlooked by investing in racial, gender, and
geographic diversity for industries across the country.

The Federal Government is the largest buyer of consumer
goods in the world. To ensure that we are investing in
American products, I recently announced a procurement
rule that strengthens Buy American provisions by
increasing the Made in America content threshold from
55 percent to 75 percent so that goods have to be truly
made in America to be considered ``Made in America.''
This represents the biggest change to the Buy American
Act in almost 70 years. I also named our Nation's
first-ever Made in America Director to serve in a high-
level White House role. I continue to call on the
Congress to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act so that
we can create more resilient domestic supply chains and
unleash the next generation of American innovation for
the industries and jobs of the future.

The historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is critical
to advancing our Made in America agenda. We are
rebuilding our Nation's roads, bridges, ports,
airports, and so much more. We are constructing a
national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers
installed by union workers on highways and in
communities across America. We are ensuring that every
American has clean drinking water. We are creating
good-paying union jobs, revitalizing American
manufacturing, and positioning the United States to
continue to lead throughout the 21st century.

In addition, we are leveraging a federally funded
national network--the Manufacturing Extension
Partnership--to help Government agencies connect with
new suppliers across the country, including Black,
Brown, and Native American-owned small businesses,
which have often been excluded from

these opportunities. My Administration also launched
MadeInAmerica.gov to help American businesses in every
community identify available government contracts, and
we created a Made in America Council to help ensure
that our future is made in all of America by all of
America's workers.

A vibrant domestic industrial base is key to building
an economy that works for working people and advancing
America's global leadership with American manufacturers
and workers at the forefront. During Made in America
Week, let us celebrate everything that is Made in
America and the workers, businesses, and innovators who
are the driving force behind their success. America is
the most innovative country in the world, and together,
we will build a competitive economy for the future
right here at home.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim July 24
through July 30, 2022, as Made in America Week. I call
upon all Americans to observe this week by supporting
American workers and domestic businesses that are the
backbone of building a future here in America and
celebrating Made in America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-second, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.