From Elm Sustainability Partners:

There have been no changes to the US conflict minerals law status or requirements for the SEC filing.  Rumors that the law has been repealed are false and the non-enforcement statement is limited in its applicability.  Companies subject to the disclosure should proceed as in previous years. Country of origin information is still not freely available (as far as we know).  Stakeholders (including media and regulators) are carefully reviewing Form SD filings to see if US sanctioned entities are in company supply chains.  Disclosing companies should expand their smelter/refiner due diligence to include this.  The EU conflict minerals directive is not yet in effect.

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