In plain English
FAR 52.225-18, Place of Manufacture, is a solicitation provision prescribed at FAR 25.110, most recently dated Aug 2018. The complete official text is reproduced below, verbatim, from GSA's published FAR source files.
Its text contains no sentence requiring insertion into subcontracts; see the flowdown section below for what that does and does not mean.
Does it flow down to subcontracts?
No flowdown mandate found in the clause text
This is a solicitation provision — it applies to offerors when submitting an offer, not to contract performance, so subcontract flowdown is generally not the operative question for it.
Where it's prescribed
As prescribed in 25.1101 (f), insert the following provision:
Prescribing reference: FAR 25.110.
The official text, verbatim
As prescribed in 25.1101 (f), insert the following provision:
Place of Manufacture (Aug 2018)
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(a) Definitions. As used in this provision—
Manufactured end product means any end product in product and service codes (PSCs) 1000-9999, except-
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(1) FPSC 5510, Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials;
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(2) Product or Service Group (PSG) 87, Agricultural Supplies;
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(3) PSG 88, Live Animals;
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(4) PSG 89, Subsistence;
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(5) PSC 9410, Crude Grades of Plant Materials;
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(6) PSC 9430, Miscellaneous Crude Animal Products, Inedible;
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(7) PSC 9440, Miscellaneous Crude Agricultural and Forestry Products;
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(8) PSC 9610, Ores;
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(9) PSC 9620, Minerals, Natural and Synthetic; and
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(10) PSC 9630, Additive Metal Materials.
Place of manufacture means the place where an end product is assembled out of components, or otherwise made or processed from raw materials into the finished product that is to be provided to the Government. If a product is disassembled and reassembled, the place of reassembly is not the place of manufacture.
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(b) For statistical purposes only, the offeror shall indicate whether the place of manufacture of the end products it expects to provide in response to this solicitation is predominantly-
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(1) □ In the United States (Check this box if the total anticipated price of offered end products manufactured in the United States exceeds the total anticipated price of offered end products manufactured outside the United States); or
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(2) □ Outside the United States.
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(End of provision)