UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 
FORM SD
 
Specialized Disclosure Report

 
Textron Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware	 	1-5480	 	05-0315468	
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)	 	(Commission
File Number)	 	(IRS Employer
Identification No.)	

40 Westminster Street, Providence, RI	 	02903	
(Address of principal executive offices)	 	(Zip Code)	
 
E. Robert Lupone
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
(401) 457-2555
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the
person to contact in connection with this report)

 
Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:
 
x                Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.

 

 
Section 1 — Conflict Minerals Disclosure
 
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
 
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
 
A copy of Textron Inc.’s Conflict Minerals Report filed for the calendar year ended December 31, 2015 is publicly available at http://investor.textron.com/investors/corporate-governance/default.aspx.
 
Item 1.02 Exhibit
 
Textron Inc.’s Conflict Minerals Report for the calendar year ended December 31, 2015 is filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto.
 
Section 2 — Exhibits
 
Item 2.01 Exhibits
 
Exhibit 1.01          Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.
 
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.

 	TEXTRON INC.	
 	 	
 	BY:	/s/ E. Robert Lupone	
 	 	E. Robert Lupone
Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary	
 
Date:  May 27, 2016
 
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Exhibit 1.01
 
TEXTRON INC.
 
Conflict Minerals Report
 
For The Year Ended December 31, 2015
 
Introduction
 
Textron Inc. is providing this report for the year ended December 31, 2015 to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants that manufacture or contract to manufacture products containing conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The term “conflict mineral” means columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan, cassiterite, gold and wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (collectively, “3TGs”).
 
Company and Product Overview
 
Textron is a $13.4 billion multi-industry company operating in numerous countries around the world.  Our businesses manufacture a variety of complex products including business jets, turboprop and piston aircraft, helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, armored vehicles, advanced marine craft, intelligent battlefield and surveillance systems, intelligence software solutions, piston engines, simulation, training and other defense and aviation mission support products, fuel systems and functional components, specialized vehicles and equipment, turf maintenance equipment, and manual and powered professional tools, testing and measurement equipment.  References to “Textron”, “we” and “our” in this Report refer to Textron Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
 
Covered Products
 
We conducted a review of the products that we manufacture or contract to be manufactured and found that our products contain 3TGs within numerous components, such as jet engines, circuit boards, electronics, brake components and wiring, and 3TGs generally are required for the products’ functionality or production as specified under the Rule.
 
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry
 
We conducted a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”) to seek to ascertain whether the 3TGs in our products originated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (known collectively as the “Covered Countries”), or are from recycled or scrap sources.
 
Because of our size, the complexity of our products, and the depth, breadth, and constant evolution of our worldwide supply chain, it is difficult to identify suppliers in our supply chain which are multiple steps removed from our direct (first-tier) suppliers, and we have no direct relationships with mines, smelters or refiners of 3TGs.  Accordingly, we rely on our direct suppliers to provide information on the origin of the 3TGs contained in components and materials supplied to us by them — including sources of 3TGs that are supplied to them from lower tier suppliers.
 
To implement our RCOI, we established enterprise-wide conflict minerals procedures directing each business unit to take a number of steps to identify suppliers (“in-scope suppliers”) of components or materials potentially containing 3TGs included in products we manufactured or contracted to manufacture during 2015.
 
Our third party consultant conducted a supply chain survey with the in-scope suppliers using the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”) Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (“CMRT”), version 4.01.  As part of the supplier survey, in-scope suppliers were contacted via a software platform that enables users to complete and track supplier communications and allows suppliers to upload completed CMRT forms directly to the platform for assessment and management. Communications sent to in-scope suppliers through the platform included training and education on the completion of the CMRT form.  The survey process and education materials were further enhanced for the 2015 reporting year.
 
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Non-responsive in-scope suppliers were contacted a number of times through the platform and then were also contacted by the consultant’s team in one on one communications.   Many suppliers who continued to be non-responsive were also contacted by a representative of the applicable Textron business unit.  The initial group of 2803 suppliers considered to be in-scope was narrowed to 2540 suppliers, due to responses which enabled us to determine that 263 suppliers were in fact not in-scope for the 2015 reporting year for various reasons.  These reasons include, for example, being an inactive supplier for that year or providing components or materials which were not included in a final product.
 
Our program for 2015 continues to include automated data validation on all submitted CMRTs. The goal of data validation is to increase the accuracy of submissions and identify any contradictory answers in the CMRT.   The survey responses were reviewed for completeness and consistency and our consultant followed up with suppliers who provided incomplete or inconsistent responses.  Ultimately, we received complete and validated responses to our supply chain survey from approximately 65% of the in-scope suppliers.
 
Although approximately 65% of Textron’s in-scope suppliers responded to the RCOI, up from just over half in 2014, there are many suppliers that have not yet provided any smelter or refiner information or have provided incomplete smelter or refiner data.  For the suppliers that responded and provided smelter or refiner data, the consultant reviewed all supplier responses that claimed in the declaration section of the CMRT to have known DRC-sourced material.
 
Because the results of our RCOI indicated that some of our products contain 3TGs which may have originated from the Covered Countries, in an effort to locate mines with the greatest possible specificity, we performed due diligence measures on the source and chain of custody of the 3TGs as described below.
 
Due Diligence
 
Design of Our Due Diligence Framework
 
Our due diligence measures have been designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework in The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas and the related Supplements for gold and for tin, tantalum and tungsten (OECD Guidance).
 
Due Diligence Process
 
In conformity with the OECD’s five step process, we conducted the following activities during the 2015 reporting period:
 
Step 1.    Company Management Systems
 
We have established a management system to support supply chain due diligence related to 3TGs which includes maintaining an internal conflict minerals team with representatives from each of our business units as well as subject matter experts from various internal functions, including legal and environmental health and safety.  The team follows our documented procedures for our conflict minerals compliance program. These procedures cover the identification of suppliers to be surveyed and escalation procedures, as described above, records retention, updating supplier lists and integrating acquired businesses into the program.  The team leaders report regularly to Textron’s Procurement Council and senior management on the status of our program.
 
In addition, the team has agreed upon a recommended conflict minerals contractual provision which our businesses seek to include in any new or amended contracts with suppliers that may be relevant for our conflict minerals compliance program.  This contractual provision requires suppliers to provide us with the necessary 3TG information and to adopt a supply chain policy and procedure to conduct, and require its suppliers to conduct, a reasonable country of origin inquiry and, if necessary, to perform due diligence to identify the facilities used to process the 3TGs and make efforts to identify the location of each mine or location of origin of the 3TGs with the greatest possible specificity.
 
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Textron has adopted a Conflict Minerals Policy Statement which can be found at http://investor.textron.com/investors/corporate-governance/default.aspx.
 
In addition, we maintain an enterprise-wide grievance mechanism, including an employee helpline, as described in our Business Conduct Guidelines, that enables employees to report suspected or known violations of our Business Conduct Guidelines, law or company policy.
 
Step 2.    Identification and Assessment of Supply Chain Risks
 
We have worked to identify and assess our supply chain risk through the CMRT survey process.  There are a variety of risks identified throughout the survey process, including the risk presented by the lack of sourcing information due to non-responsive suppliers and suppliers providing incomplete or inconsistent responses.   The smelter and refiner data collected through the CMRT highlights actual sourcing risk, such as a smelter or refiner sourcing from the Covered Countries and not yet certified as conflict free, or of even higher risk, a smelter or refiner which has not yet begun the audit process to receive certification.
 
Step 3.    Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks
 
While many risks exist in the search for the origin of the conflict minerals used in components and materials supplied to Textron, as noted above, one of our identified risks is the inability to obtain complete and accurate information from our suppliers in order to make determinations about our products.  There are numerous initiatives working to improve transparency and accountability at the smelter and refinery levels of the supply chain, however, we can only benefit from the information being developed by these initiatives if our suppliers are able to trace back the conflict minerals in their products to a specific smelter or refiner.
 
In our new or amended contractual agreements with our direct suppliers, we have requested the inclusion of a contractual provision which requires suppliers to provide us with the necessary 3TG information and to adopt a supply chain policy and procedure to conduct, and require its suppliers to conduct, a reasonable country of origin inquiry and, if necessary, to perform due diligence to identify the facilities used to process the 3TGs and make efforts to identify the location of each mine or location of origin of the 3TGs with the greatest possible specificity.  This objective also is reflected in our Conflict Minerals Policy Statement, which indicates that we encourage our suppliers to undertake reasonable due diligence with their supply chains in an effort to assure their conflict minerals are being sourced from mines and smelters/refiners which have been certified by an independent third party as “conflict free” if sourced within the Covered Countries.  Our Policy Statement further states that “if we determine that any of our products or components contain 3TG from a mine or facility in a Covered Country that is not “conflict free”, we will evaluate our options, including but not limited to reassessment of the supplier relationship.”
 
As our program matures and we obtain more detailed information from our suppliers with regard to the origin of the 3TGs contained in components and materials supplied to us by them, we intend to establish a process to respond to identified risks in our supply chain, including escalating identified risks to management for consideration of appropriate action.  During 2015, we did not identify any instances where it was necessary to escalate identified risks to management for further action.
 
Step 4.    Independent Third Party Audit of Facilities’ Due Diligence Practices
 
As discussed above, we do not have direct relationships with smelters or refiners, and we do not perform direct audits of these entities’ supply chains.  We intend to rely on the development and implementation of independent third party audits of smelters’ and refiners’ sourcing, such as the CFSI’s Conflict-Free Smelter Program.
 
Step 5.    Report on Supply Chain Due Diligence
 
This Report is submitted to the SEC annually and is publicly available at http://investor.textron.com/investors/corporate-governance/default.aspx.
 
Due Diligence Results
 
Many of the responses received from suppliers which indicated that they source 3TGs from a Covered Country provided data at a company or divisional level, rather than at the part or component level. As a result, we have been
 
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unable to determine whether the 3TGs reported by these suppliers were contained in components supplied to us (as opposed to other components supplied by our suppliers but not purchased by us).  We are therefore unable to directly link, based on the due diligence measures described in this Report, 3TGs contained in Textron products to 3TGs originating from a Covered Country.
 
Facilities Used to Process the 3TGs
 
Certain of the supplier responses in the CMRT included the names of facilities listed as smelters or refiners.  We do not typically have a direct relationship with 3TG smelters and refiners and do not perform or direct audits of these entities within our supply chain.  Our consultant compared the facilities listed in the responses in the CMRT to the list of smelters maintained by the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”) and confirmed that the name was listed by CFSI. As of May 16, 2016, we have validated in this manner that 320 smelters or refiners provided in our supplier CMRTs are included on these lists.
 
If a supplier indicated that a facility was certified as “Conflict-Free” our consultant confirmed that it was listed as such by CFSI. Of the smelters and refiners listed by suppliers via the CMRTs which have been validated as described, 216 have been confirmed as “Conflict-Free” and 47 have begun the process to be validated as Conflict-Free. The CMRTs in the aggregate claim that 21of the Conflict-Free smelters source 3TGs from the Covered Countries, however we cannot confirm this information.   Many of the CMRTs did not provide information regarding the country of origin of 3TGs, and such information is generally not available through public information sources related to the smelters and refiners.
 
Despite the additional smelter information obtained from these suppliers, in most cases information has been provided on a company or division level, rather than on a component level.  Therefore, we cannot yet ascertain whether the smelters identified by our suppliers are related to any parts or components actually provided to us by the suppliers.  Attachment A lists the smelters and refiners that the suppliers we surveyed reported as being in their supply chains, along with the facility location, and an aggregate country list of known smelter or refiner sourcing countries.  We have not included in Attachment A any smelters or refiners that we have not been able to validate.
 
Many suppliers are still unable to provide the smelters or refiners used for components supplied by them to us and, even where facilities were identified, the suppliers did not always provide complete information on the facility, including smelter identification numbers, so that we were unable to immediately validate the smelter as described above and, as previously noted, many of the responses indicated an “unknown” status in terms of determining the origin of 3TGs.
 
Efforts to Determine Mine or Location of Origin
 
For the reasons explained above, we rely on our direct suppliers to provide information on the origin of the 3TGs contained in components and materials they supply to us.  As noted above, our program has initially focused on gathering smelter and refiner information via the CMRT survey process and, as the program progresses, we intend to work toward obtaining from our suppliers all necessary smelter and refiner identification information.  This information will facilitate the validation and disclosure of the smelters and refiners as well as the tracing of the 3TGs to their location of origin.  However, to date we only have smelter and facility information and no information with regard to the mine or specific location of origin of the 3TGs in our products or whether they come from recycled or scrap sources, as we understand that generally that information is kept confidential by the refiners and smelters.
 
We believe that the inquiries and investigations described above represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the 3TGs in our Covered Products, including seeking information about 3TG smelters and refiners in our supply chain through requesting that our suppliers complete the CMRT and verifying those smelters and refiners with the expanding CFSI lists to the extent possible.
 
Steps to be Taken to Mitigate Risk
 
We intend to take and continue the following actions to mitigate the risk that our necessary 3TGs benefit armed groups:
 
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·                   Direct each of our business units to request our recommended contractual provision requiring our suppliers to conduct due diligence on their supply chains and to provide information to us about the source of their 3TGs, as described above. This provision is intended to be included in new and renewed supplier contracts on a going forward basis.
·                   Establish a screening process for new suppliers to our businesses so that new suppliers will be added to our in-scope supplier list if appropriate as they begin a relationship with the business.
·                   Direct suppliers to training resources to attempt to increase the response rate and improve the content of the supplier survey responses.
·                   Work toward obtaining from our suppliers additional smelter and refiner identification information.
 
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Attachment A
 
Smelter and Refiner List

Metal	 	Standard Smelter or Refiner Name	 	Smelter or Refiner
Facility Location	
Gold	 	Advanced Chemical Company	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Aktyubinsk Copper Company TOO	 	KAZAKHSTAN	
Gold	 	Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC	 	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	
Gold	 	Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)	 	UZBEKISTAN	
Gold	 	AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração	 	BRAZIL	
Gold	 	Argor-Heraeus SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Asahi Pretec Corporation	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Asahi Refining Canada Limited	 	CANADA	
Gold	 	Asahi Refining USA Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.	 	TURKEY	
Gold	 	Aurubis AG	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)	 	PHILIPPINES	
Gold	 	Bauer Walser AG	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Boliden AB	 	SWEDEN	
Gold	 	C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Caridad	 	MEXICO	
Gold	 	CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation	 	CANADA	
Gold	 	Cendres + Métaux SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Chimet S.p.A.	 	ITALY	
Gold	 	Chugai Mining	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Daejin Indus Co., Ltd.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
 
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Gold	 	Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Do Sung Corporation	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	DODUCO GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Dowa	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Elemetal Refining, LLC	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Emirates Gold DMCC	 	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	
Gold	 	Faggi Enrico S.p.A.	 	ITALY	
Gold	 	Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd.	 	ZIMBABWE	
Gold	 	Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Geib Refining Corporation	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Heimerle + Meule GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Istanbul Gold Refinery	 	TURKEY	
Gold	 	Japan Mint	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Jiangxi Copper Company Limited	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	JSC Uralelectromed	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
 
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Gold	 	Kaloti Precious Metals	 	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	
Gold	 	Kazakhmys Smelting LLC	 	KAZAKHSTAN	
Gold	 	Kazzinc	 	KAZAKHSTAN	
Gold	 	Kennecott Utah Copper LLC	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna	 	POLAND	
Gold	 	Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Korea Metal Co., Ltd.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	Korea Zinc Co. Ltd.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	Kyrgyzaltyn JSC	 	KYRGYZSTAN	
Gold	 	L’ azurde Company For Jewelry	 	SAUDI ARABIA	
Gold	 	Lingbao Gold Company Limited	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Materion	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Metahub Industries Sdn. Bhd.	 	MALAYSIA	
Gold	 	Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.	 	SINGAPORE	
Gold	 	Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Metalor Technologies SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Metalor USA Refining Corporation	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	METALÚRGICA MET-MEX PEÑOLES, S.A. DE C.V	 	MEXICO	
Gold	 	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd.	 	INDIA	
Gold	 	Morris and Watson	 	NEW ZEALAND	
Gold	 	Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
 
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Gold	 	Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.	 	TURKEY	
Gold	 	Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat	 	UZBEKISTAN	
Gold	 	Nihon Material Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH	 	AUSTRIA	
Gold	 	Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastsvetmet)	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	OJSC Kolyma Refinery	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	PAMP SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk	 	INDONESIA	
Gold	 	PX Précinox SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.	 	SOUTH AFRICA	
Gold	 	Republic Metals Corporation	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Royal Canadian Mint	 	CANADA	
Gold	 	SAAMP	 	FRANCE	
Gold	 	Sabin Metal Corp.	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Samduck Precious Metals	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	SAMWON Metals Corp.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Schone Edelmetaal B.V.	 	NETHERLANDS	
Gold	 	SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA	 	SPAIN	
Gold	 	Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Singway Technology Co., Ltd.	 	TAIWAN	
Gold	 	So Accurate Group, Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
 
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Gold	 	SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Gold	 	Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.	 	TAIWAN	
Gold	 	Sudan Gold Refinery	 	SUDAN	
Gold	 	Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	T.C.A S.p.A	 	ITALY	
Gold	 	Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Tony Goetz NV	 	BELGIUM	
Gold	 	Torecom	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Gold	 	Umicore Brasil Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Gold	 	Umicore Precious Metals Thailand	 	THAILAND	
Gold	 	Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining	 	BELGIUM	
Gold	 	United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Gold	 	Valcambi SA	 	SWITZERLAND	
Gold	 	Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint	 	AUSTRALIA	
Gold	 	WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Gold	 	Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Gold	 	Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation	 	CHINA	
Gold	 	Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Avon Specialty Metals Ltd	 	UNITED KINGDOM	
Tantalum	 	Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	D Block Metals, LLC	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Duoluoshan	 	CHINA	
 
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Tantalum	 	E.S.R. Electronics	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Exotech Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	FIR Metals & Resource Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Global Advanced Metals Aizu	 	JAPAN	
Tantalum	 	Global Advanced Metals Boyertown	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Guizhou Zhenhua Xinyun Technology Ltd., Kaili branch	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.	 	THAILAND	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar	 	GERMANY	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg	 	GERMANY	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Tantalum	 	H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG	 	GERMANY	
Tantalum	 	Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Hi-Temp Specialty Metals, Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	KEMET Blue Metals	 	MEXICO	
Tantalum	 	KEMET Blue Powder	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	LSM Brasil S.A.	 	BRAZIL	
Tantalum	 	Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.	 	INDIA	
Tantalum	 	Mineração Taboca S.A.	 	BRAZIL	
 
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Tantalum	 	Mitsui Mining & Smelting	 	JAPAN	
Tantalum	 	Molycorp Silmet A.S.	 	ESTONIA	
Tantalum	 	Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Plansee SE Liezen	 	AUSTRIA	
Tantalum	 	Plansee SE Reutte	 	AUSTRIA	
Tantalum	 	QuantumClean	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tantalum	 	RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Tantalum	 	Taki Chemicals	 	JAPAN	
Tantalum	 	Telex Metals	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Tranzact, Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tantalum	 	Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC	 	KAZAKHSTAN	
Tantalum	 	XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tantalum	 	Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Alpha	 	UNITED STATES	
Tin	 	An Thai Minerals Company Limited	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	Chenzhou Yun Xiang mining limited liability company	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	China Tin Group Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	CV Ayi Jaya	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	CV Dua Sekawan	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	CV Gita Pesona	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	CV Serumpun Sebalai	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	CV Tiga Sekawan	 	INDONESIA	
 
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Tin	 	CV United Smelting	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	CV Venus Inti Perkasa	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	Dowa	 	JAPAN	
Tin	 	Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	Elmet S.L.U. (Metallo Group)	 	SPAIN	
Tin	 	EM Vinto	 	BOLIVIA	
Tin	 	Estanho de Rondônia S.A.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Feinhütte Halsbrücke GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Tin	 	Fenix Metals	 	POLAND	
Tin	 	Gejiu Fengming Metalurgy Chemical Plant	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Linwu Xianggui Ore Smelting Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)	 	MALAYSIA	
Tin	 	Melt Metais e Ligas S/A	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Metahub Industries Sdn. Bhd.	 	MALAYSIA	
Tin	 	Metallic Resources, Inc.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tin	 	Metallo-Chimique N.V.	 	BELGIUM	
Tin	 	Mineração Taboca S.A.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Minsur	 	PERU	
Tin	 	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	 	JAPAN	
 
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Tin	 	Nankang Nanshan Tin Manufactory Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.	 	THAILAND	
Tin	 	O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.	 	PHILIPPINES	
Tin	 	Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.	 	BOLIVIA	
Tin	 	Phoenix Metal Ltd.	 	RWANDA	
Tin	 	PT Alam Lestari Kencana	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Artha Cipta Langgeng	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Babel Inti Perkasa	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Bangka Kudai Tin	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Bangka Prima Tin	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Bangka Tin Industry	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Bukit Timah	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Cipta Persada Mulia	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT DS Jaya Abadi	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Fang Di MulTindo	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Inti Stania Prima	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Justindo	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Karimun Mining	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Mitra Stania Prima	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Panca Mega Persada	 	INDONESIA	
 
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Tin	 	PT Pelat Timah Nusantara Tbk	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Prima Timah Utama	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Refined Bangka Tin	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Seirama Tin Investment	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Sukses Inti Makmur	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Sumber Jaya Indah	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Tinindo Inter Nusa	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Tirus Putra Mandiri	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Tommy Utama	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	PT Wahana Perkit Jaya	 	INDONESIA	
Tin	 	Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Rui Da Hung	 	TAIWAN	
Tin	 	Soft Metais Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Thaisarco	 	THAILAND	
Tin	 	Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC	 	VIET NAM	
Tin	 	White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.	 	BRAZIL	
Tin	 	Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tin	 	Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.	 	JAPAN	
Tungsten	 	ACL Metais Eireli	 	BRAZIL	
Tungsten	 	Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.	 	VIET NAM	
Tungsten	 	Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
 
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Tungsten	 	Dayu Jincheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganxian Shirui New Material Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.	 	UNITED STATES	
Tungsten	 	Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	H.C. Starck GmbH	 	GERMANY	
Tungsten	 	H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG	 	GERMANY	
Tungsten	 	Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Yanglin	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Hydrometallurg, JSC	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Tungsten	 	Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.	 	JAPAN	
Tungsten	 	Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Dayu Longxintai Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Minmetals Gao’an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Xiushui Xianggan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Kennametal Fallon	 	UNITED STATES	
 
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Tungsten	 	Kennametal Huntsville	 	UNITED STATES	
Tungsten	 	Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Moliren Ltd	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Tungsten	 	Niagara Refining LLC	 	UNITED STATES	
Tungsten	 	Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC	 	VIET NAM	
Tungsten	 	Philippine Chuangin Industrial Co., Inc.	 	PHILIPPINES	
Tungsten	 	Pobedit, JSC	 	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	
Tungsten	 	Sanher Tungsten Vietnam Co., Ltd.	 	VIET NAM	
Tungsten	 	Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	VIET NAM	
Tungsten	 	Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.	 	VIET NAM	
Tungsten	 	Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG	 	AUSTRIA	
Tungsten	 	Woltech Korea Co., Ltd.	 	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	
Tungsten	 	Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
Tungsten	 	Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd.	 	CHINA	
 
Country of Origin List :
 
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
 
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