Meeting the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA)

What is TAA Compliance?

TAA refers to the Trade Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. & 2501-2581), which is intended to foster fair and open international trade. TAA requires that the U.S. government may acquire only “U.S. – made or designated country end products. This act requires contractors to certify that each product meets the applicable requirements. End products are ‘those articles, materials and supplies to be acquired for public use’.” This includes items which have been “substantially transformed” in the U.S.

For software products, the software must be built in a TAA country. Eaton meets this requirement, as its software is developed and built in the United States and Canada. CBP (Customs and Border Protection) has consistently held that conducting a software build—compiling source code into object code—results in substantial transformation for software products.

Eaton’s TAA-compliant software products are approved to be acquired by the U.S. government for use.

Compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Eaton Corporation's Electrical Sector takes the advancement of inclusion and full access to electronic and information technology for all persons very seriously. With regard to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the "Act"), the majority of products manufactured by Eaton's Electrical Sector do not qualify as "electronic and information technology" ("EIT") as defined in the Act.

For those products of Eaton's which do qualify as EIT, Eaton asserts an exception to the applicability of the Act under Section 1194.3(f) based on the fact that the products would be "located in spaces frequented only by service personnel for maintenance, repair, or occasional monitoring of equipment."

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