[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 8]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR381.5]

[Page 347]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
    CHAPTER II--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 381_CARGO PREFERENCE_U.S.-FLAG VESSELS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 381.5  Fix American-flag tonnage first.

    Each department or agency having responsibility under the Cargo 
Preference Act of 1954 shall cause each full shipload of cargo subject 
to said act to be fixed on U.S.-flag vessels prior to any fixture on 
foreign-flag vessels for at least that portion of all preference cargoes 
required by that Act and the Food Security Act of 1985 to be shipped on 
U.S.-flag vessels, computed by purchase authorization or other 
quantitative unit satisfactory to the agency involved and the Maritime 
Administration, except where such department or agency determines, with 
the concurrence of the Maritime Administration, that (a) U.S.-flag 
vessels are not available at fair and reasonable rates for U.S.-flag 
commercial vessels, or (b) that there is a substantially valid reason 
for fixing foreign-flag vessels first.

[G.O. 103, Amdt. 2, 36 FR 19254, Oct. 1, 1971, as amended at 57 FR 
13047, Apr. 15, 1992]