Are Discriminatory and Preferential Government Procurement Practices Damaging to International Trade? One Might Think So . . .

Discriminatory or preferential procurement practices can take several explicit forms, including “outright exclusion” in which foreign bidders are excluded from the tendering process (for example, defense contracts are often, but not always, reserved for domestic suppliers).  Under “preferential price margin,” purchasing entities accept the bids of domestic suppliers over foreign suppliers as long as the […]