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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM SD

SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT

 

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.

(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

DELAWARE 001-33957 04-3306140

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation)

(Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification Number)

 

  84 October Hill Road, Holliston, MA   01746  
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)  

 

  Robert Gagnon (508) 893-8999  
(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:

 

Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

Item 1.01   Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (“Harvard Bioscience”) has evaluated its current product lines and has determined in good faith that during 2017 it manufactured or contracted to manufacture products as to which columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten (herein referred to as “Conflict Minerals”)) are necessary to the functionality or production of such products (herein referred to as “Covered Products”). Based on such determination, Harvard Bioscience conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry, or RCOI, that was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola); or were from recycled or scrap sources.

 

Following the RCOI, Harvard Bioscience exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of its applicable products. Information on the RCOI, steps we have taken to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of any Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products and the results of this due diligence, are disclosed in the Conflict Minerals Report filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

 

Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

A copy of Harvard Bioscience’s Conflict Minerals Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto and is publicly available at: http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.  The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Form SD.

 

Item 1.02   Exhibit

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. has filed its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

 

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 SD

 

Forward Looking Statements

 

This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD and the exhibit to this Form SD may contain statements that are not statements of historical fact and are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). The forward-looking statements are principally contained in Exhibit 1.01 and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about management’s confidence or expectations, and our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions that are not historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “seek,” “expects,” “plans,” “aim,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “projects,” “predicts,” “intends,” “think,” “potential,” “objectives,” “optimistic,” “strategy,” “goals,” “sees,” “new,” “guidance,” “future,” “continue,” “drive,” “growth,” “long-term,” “projects,” “develop,” “possible,” “emerging,” “opportunity,” “pursue” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include those described under the heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, or described in our other public filings. Our results may also be affected by factors of which we are not currently aware. We may not update these forward-looking statements, even though our situation may change in the future, unless we have obligations under the federal securities laws to update and disclose material developments related to previously disclosed information.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.      
(Registrant)      
       
/s/ Robert E. Gagnon      
By: Robert E. Gagnon, Chief Financial Officer May 25, 2018  

 

 

Exhibit 1.01

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.

 

Conflict Minerals Report

 

For The Year Ended December 31, 2017

 

This report for the year ended December 31, 2017 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Rule”). The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals which are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Conflict Minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (“Conflict Minerals”) for the purposes of this report. These requirements apply to registrants whatever the geographic origin of the conflict minerals and whether or not they fund armed conflict.

 

As described in this report, Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as “Harvard Bioscience” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) has reason to believe that some of the Conflict Minerals present in its supply chain may have originated in the Covered Countries.  For purposes of this report, Covered Countries refers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”) and adjoining countries, defined as any country that shares an internationally recognized border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  We are unable with absolute assurance to determine the origin of the Conflict Minerals in our products and therefore cannot exclude the possibility that some may have originated in the Covered Countries.

 

1. Company Overview

 

This report has been prepared by management of Harvard Bioscience. The information includes the activities of all majority-owned subsidiaries as of December 31, 2017. This report does not include information on the activities of Data Sciences International, Inc. (“DSI”), which was acquired by Harvard Bioscience in January 2018.

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of scientific instruments and systems used to advance life science for basic research, drug discovery, clinical and environmental testing. Our products are sold to thousands of researchers in over 100 countries through our global sales organization, websites, catalogs, and through distributors including Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., VWR and other specialized distributors. We have sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Canada, and China.

 

Conflict Minerals Policy

 

We adopted a conflict minerals policy in 2013 which is publicly available at http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

2. Product Description

 

As of December 31, 2017, our broad core product range was organized into three commercial product families: Physiology, Cell, Molecular Instruments (PCMI), Electrophysiology (Ephys), and Laboratory Products and Supplies (LPS). As of December 31, 2017, we primarily sold our products under brand names, including Harvard Apparatus, Denville Scientific, KD Scientific, Hoefer, Biochrom, BTX, Warner Instruments, MCS, HEKA, Hugo Sachs Elektronik, Panlab, Coulbourn Instruments, TBSI, and CMA Microdialysis. Following the sale of Denville Scientific, Inc. and the acquisition of DSI in 2018, our core broad product ranges will be organized into three commercial product families, consisting of PCMI, Ephys, and Data Sciences.  Our products consist of instruments, consumables, and systems made up of several individual products. We manufacture our products at our locations in the United States, Germany, Sweden and Spain.  Our broad and complex product range may contain conflict minerals within the following components:

 

·           Tantalum, used in capacitors,
·           Tin, used in soldered components,
·           Tungsten, used in coatings, alloys, heating elements and electrodes,
·           Gold, used in circuit boards, electrodes and electronic components.

 

3. Description of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry, or RCOI

 

We began our RCOI by completing a supplier list extraction from our Vendor List. This list was then filtered to remove:

 

• Service Providers/Suppliers

• Indirect Materials Suppliers

• Inactive Suppliers (minimum 1 year since last purchase)

 

 

 

This ensures that all suppliers surveyed provided items to Harvard Bioscience that were used in final products in the year 2017. Once the filtering was completed, we populated the list with contact information and this list was then provided to Assent Compliance (“Assent”), our third party service provider, for upload to their Assent Compliance Manager SaaS system (“ACM”). It was deemed appropriate to not further filter this list based on the necessity of the presence of Conflict Minerals in the products as we could not definitively determine the presence or absence of Conflict Minerals in all parts supplied. The survey employed the RMI’s Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the “CMRT”), version 5.0 or higher, originally developed by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and The Global e-Sustainability Initiative. The CMRT allows for further scoping as they ask suppliers whether any of the Conflict Minerals are intentionally added and if they are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Assent conducted additional analysis of the supply chain and such analysis combined with supplier feedback, allowed Assent and Harvard Bioscience to remove additional suppliers from scope of the conflict minerals regulation. The factors considered in Assent’s secondary analysis and the information provided that removed these suppliers from scope included:

 

• The product they supply is packaging (labels do not count as packaging).

• Parts that do not end up in the final product (this includes equipment used to make the product but is not a part of the actual product itself (i.e. Industrial equipment, computers etc.)).

• Test Labs (i.e. Providers that test the resistance or durability of a product).

• Service Providers (i.e. any supplier that provides a service but not an actual physical part).

• Any supplier who has not supplied anything to Harvard Bioscience in the last 2 years.

 

Assent then conducted the supplier survey portion of the RCOI.

 

During the supplier survey, suppliers were contacted via the ACM, a SaaS platform that enables its users to complete and track supplier communications as well as allow suppliers to upload completed CMRTs directly to the platform for assessment and management.

 

Non-responsive suppliers were contacted a minimum of three times by ACM and then were also managed by the Assent Compliance team in one on one communications. This includes two to three direct follow ups from that team.

 

Assent’s communications with suppliers included training and education on the completion of the CMRT to alleviate any remaining confusion with suppliers. All of these communications were monitored and tracked in Assent's system for future reporting and transparency.

 

The program 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.

This data validation is based on:

·Questions 1 and 2 are minimum requirements for the CMRT
oIf suppliers state (via Q1 and Q2) that their products do not contain 3TGs necessary to the function or production of said products, then no further information is required and no further data validation is completed.
·Question 3 – Do any of your 3TGs originate from the covered countries?
oAny supplier that has any 3TGs from the covered countries, even 1 positive response from their supply chain must answer yes.
·Question 4– is 100% of the 3TG in question from a recycled source?
·Question 5 – Have you received info from all relevant 3TG Suppliers?
oIf you are not at 100%, then you can’t make definitive statements for Questions 3, 4 and 6
·Question 6 – Have you identified all your Smelters and refiners?
oIf the answer here is yes, then question 5 must be yes. This also impacts question 3.

All submitted forms are accepted and classified as valid or invalid so that data is still retained. Suppliers are contacted in regards to invalid forms and are encouraged to resubmit a valid form.

 

4. Due Diligence Process

 

4.1 Design of Due Diligence

 

Our due diligence measures have been designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework in The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (the “OECD Guidance”) and the related Supplements for Conflict Minerals.

 

The Guidance identifies five steps for due diligence that should be implemented and provides guidance as to how to achieve each step. We developed our due diligence process to address each of these five steps, namely:

 

1.Establishing strong company management systems regarding conflict minerals;
2.Identifying and assessing risks in our supply chain;
3.Designing and implementing a strategy to respond to identified risks in our supply chain;
4.Utilizing independent third-party audits of supply chain diligence; and
5.Publicly reporting on our supply chain due diligence

 

 

 

We are a downstream supplier, many steps removed from the mining of 3TG. A large number of suppliers, through multiple tiers of distribution, supply the components and materials integrated into our products. Furthermore, we do not purchase raw ore or unrefined conflict minerals or make purchases from the Covered Countries. The origin of the conflict minerals cannot be determined with any certainty once the raw ores are smelted, refined and converted to ingots, bullion or other conflict mineral containing derivatives. The smelters

and refiners consolidate raw ore and represent the best actors in the total supply chain to possess knowledge of the origin of the ores they procure.

 

The OECD Guidance specifies that the requirements for compliance should reflect a company’s position in the supply chain.  In particular, the OECD Guidance states that the implementation of due diligence should be tailored to a company’s activities and relationships and that the nature and extent of due diligence may vary based on a company’s size, products, relationships with suppliers and other factors.  Due to practical difficulties associated with supply chain complexities, the OECD Guidance advises that downstream companies exercise due diligence primarily by establishing controls over their immediate suppliers. Accordingly, we rely primarily on our “tier 1” (direct) suppliers to provide information with respect to the origin of the conflict minerals contained in the components and materials supplied to us.

 

 

4.2 Management Systems

 

Internal Team

 

Harvard Bioscience has established a management system for conflict minerals. Our management system includes a committee selected by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company as well as executive-level representatives and a team of subject matter experts from relevant functions such as:

 

· Quality
· Purchasing
· Finance
· Engineering

 

The team of subject matter experts is responsible for implementing our conflict minerals compliance strategy. Senior management is briefed about the results of our due diligence efforts on a regular basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Control systems

 

As we do not typically have a direct relationship with Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners, we are engaged and actively cooperate with other major manufacturers in our sector and other sectors. Controls include, but are not limited to, the use of the CMRT as the data collection format for our suppliers, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics which outlines certain expected behaviors for all Harvard Bioscience employees. In addition, we rely on our direct suppliers to provide information on the origin of the Conflict Minerals contained in components and materials supplied to us – including sources of Conflict Minerals that are supplied to them from lower tier suppliers.

 

Supplier Engagement

 

With respect to the OECD requirement to strengthen engagement with suppliers, we have, through Assent, provided education on the Conflict Minerals regulation as well as the expectations of the law and for a continued business relationship. This year, we put a stronger emphasis on supplier education and training. To accomplish this, we utilized Assent’s learning management system, Assent University, and provided all in-scope suppliers access to their Conflict Minerals training course. This training is tracked and evaluated based on completion. All suppliers are encouraged to complete all modules within this course.

 

Grievance Mechanism

 

Various communication channels exist to serve as grievance mechanisms for early-warning risk awareness. We have multiple longstanding grievance mechanisms whereby employees (internal) and suppliers (external) can report violations of our policies. This includes, but is not limited to our whistleblower hotline that is part of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics policy located on our website at http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

Maintain Records

 

Our existing policy related to relevant documentation of our conflict mineral compliance process requires that documentation will be retained for a period of at least five years. We store all of the information and findings from this process in a database that can be audited by internal or external parties.

 

4.3 Identify and assess risk in the supply chain

 

Because of the complexity of our products, and the depth, breadth, and constant evolution of our supply chain, it is difficult to identify actors upstream from our direct suppliers. Risks are identified automatically in‎ ACM based on criteria established for supplier responses in the Conflict Policy document and Management System.

  

All of the information and findings from this process are stored in a database that can be audited by internal or external ‎parties.

 

Certain of the responses to the surveys included the names of facilities listed by the suppliers as smelters or refiners. We compared, via Assent, each facility listed in the responses to the lists of smelters and refiners maintained by the RMI to verify the existence of the facility and to determine whether the facility has met the requirements of the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) and is considered Compliant to that protocol.

 

Each facility that meets the RMI definition of a smelter or refiner of a 3TG mineral is assigned a risk of high, medium or low based on 3 scoring criteria:

 

1.Geographic proximity to the DRC and covered countries;
2.Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) audit status;
3.Known or plausible evidence of unethical or conflict sourcing.

 

Based on this criteria, certain facilities have been identified as being of highest concern to the supply chain. When these facilities were reported on a CMRT by one of the suppliers surveyed, risk mitigation activities were initiated. Through Assent, submissions that include any of the above facilities immediately produce a receipt instructing the supplier to take their own risk mitigation actions, including submission of a product specific CMRT to better identify the connection to products that they supply to Harvard Bioscience, and escalating up to removal of these high risk smelters from their supply chain.

 

As per the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, risk mitigation will depend on the supplier’s specific context. Suppliers are given clear performance objectives within reasonable timeframes with the ultimate goal of progressive elimination of these risks from the supply chain.  

 

In addition, suppliers are guided to the Assent University learning platform to engage in educational materials on mitigating the risk of smelters or refiners on the supply chain.

 

If any smelter or refiner is not recognized by the RMI, Assent conducts outreach and research to gain more information about whether they are a smelter or a refiner, sourcing practices, location, and country of origin. Additionally, if any smelter is not certified conflict-free, Assent conducts outreach providing education on the RMAP and encouraging them to join this program.

 

 

 

Additionally, suppliers are evaluated on program strength (further assisting in identifying risk in the supply chain). Many companies continue to be in the middle of the process and still have “unknown” as some of the answers. It has been decided that penalizing or failing them for working through the process is likely not the best approach for the initial years of compliance, it does not meet the goals or spirit of the Rule, however evaluating and tracking the strength of the program does meet the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines and can assist in making key risk mitigation decisions as the program progresses. The criteria used to evaluate the strength of the program are:

 

A. Have you established a conflict minerals sourcing policy?

 

E. Have you implemented due diligence measures for conflict-free sourcing?

G. Do you review due diligence information received from your suppliers against your company’s expectations?

 

H. Does your review process include corrective action management?

 

When suppliers meet or exceed those criteria (“Yes” to at least A, E, G, H), they are deemed to have a strong program. When suppliers do not meet those criteria, they are deemed to have a weak program.

 

We believe that the inquiries and investigations described above represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the Conflict Minerals in our Covered Products, including (1) seeking information about Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners in our supply chain through requesting that our suppliers complete the CMRT, (2) verifying those smelters and refiners with the expanding RMI lists, (3) conducting the due diligence review, and (4) obtaining additional documentation and verification, as applicable.

 

4.4 Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Risks

 

In response to this risk assessment, Harvard Bioscience has an approved risk management plan, through which the conflict minerals program is implemented, managed and monitored.

 

As part of our risk management plan, to ensure suppliers understand our expectations we have provided both video, recorded training and documented instructions through Assent. As the program progresses, contacts via email and phone by Harvard Bioscience procurement team members will be completed as an escalation to ensure the importance of a response via CMRTs to Assent and the required cooperation for compliance to the Conflict Minerals rules will be emphasized.

 

As described in our conflict minerals policy, we engage any of our suppliers whom we have reason to believe are supplying us with Conflict Minerals from sources that may support conflict in the Covered Countries to establish an alternative source of Conflict Minerals that does not support such conflict, as provided in the OECD guidance. We have found no instances where it was necessary to terminate a contract or find a replacement supplier.

 

4.5 Carry out Independent Third Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain

 

We do not typically have a direct relationship with smelters and refiners and therefore do not perform or direct audits of these entities. However, we will rely on publicly available third party assurances and certifications, for example, through the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process “RMAP”.

 

4.6 Report annually on supply chain due diligence

 

We report annually on our supply chain due diligence by filing a Form SD and a Conflict Minerals Report with the SEC. Our Form SD and Conflict Minerals Report can be found on the Corporate Governance page of our website: http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

5. Due Diligence Results

 

Survey Responses

 

We are actively surveying our supplier chain. This year we surveyed 1358 suppliers. Of those suppliers we received CMRTs from 513 suppliers. We review the responses against criteria developed to determine whether further engagement with our suppliers is required. These criteria included untimely or incomplete responses as well as inconsistencies within the data reported in the template. We, through the assistance of Assent, have worked with these suppliers to provide revised responses. All final CMRT submissions were reviewed and validated to ensure no inaccuracies or gaps in data were found. At the end of our campaigning, 19 suppliers were unable to correct their CMRT and as such, are still listed as invalid submissions.

 

Smelters or Refiners

 

The information that we received from a majority of our Applicable Suppliers was at their company-wide level. Thus, the smelters or refiners identified by our Applicable Suppliers contained in the tables below may contain smelters or refiners that processed conflict minerals that our Applicable Suppliers supplied to their other customers, but not to us. As a result, we are unable to conclusively determine whether the smelters or refiners included in the tables below were used to process the conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2017. Because of this uncertainty, we are also unable to conclusively determine whether each of the countries of origin listed above were the country of origin of conflict minerals in our products during 2017, and therefore also unable to conclusively determine the source and chain of custody of those conflict minerals. In addition, the information that we receive from our Applicable Suppliers may yield inaccurate or incomplete information because they may not have received accurate and complete conflict minerals information from all of the suppliers in their own supply chain. As we are not a member of the RMI, we also do not have access to audit reports or detailed findings of the third-party audits conducted as part of the RMI’s RMAP or the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme and, as a result, are not responsible for the quality of these audits or the audit findings.

 

 

 

Our third-party service provider compared the facilities listed in the responses in the CMRT to the list of smelters maintained by the RMI, and confirmed that the name was listed by RMI as a legitimate smelter. As of May 1, 2018, we have validated in this manner that 322 smelters or refiners provided in our supplier CMRTs are included on these lists. The facilities determined to be legitimate smelters or refiners based on this comparison to the RMI-maintained list have also been compared to the RMI’s RMAP list. Based on this comparison, we are aware of 258 compliant smelters or refiners, 11 smelters or refiners that have begun the process and are deemed as active in the RMAP but have not yet been validated as Conflict-Free and 54 smelters or refiners that are not enrolled in the process to become compliant to the RMAP. Confirmed smelter or refiner sourcing is not generally available through public information sources related to the smelter or refiner however Attachment A does include an aggregate country list of known smelter or refiner sourcing countries. 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. We have not included in Attachment A any smelters or refiners that we have not been able to validate. Attachment A also includes the facility RMI audit status.

 

Efforts to determine mine or location of origin

 

As noted above, the current efforts focus on gathering smelter information via the CMRT reporting template and, as the program progresses, requiring full completion of all necessary smelter identification information which will enable the validation and disclosure of the smelters as well as the tracing of the Conflict Minerals to their location of origin. Seeking information about Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners in our supply chain represents the most reasonable effort we can make to determine the mines or locations of origin of the Conflict Minerals in our supply chain.

 

6. Steps to improve future due diligence and to mitigate risk

 

We intend to take the following steps to improve the due diligence conducted to further mitigate any risk that the necessary Conflict Minerals in our products could benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries:

 

• Include a conflict minerals flow-down clause in new or renewed supplier contracts.

• Engage with suppliers and direct them to training resources to attempt to increase the response rate and improve the content of the supplier survey responses.

• Suppliers will also be requested to inform Harvard Bioscience of the correlation between these smelters and the products and parts they supply to Harvard Bioscience

• Engage any of our suppliers found to be supplying us with Conflict Minerals from sources that support conflict in the DRC or any adjoining country to establish an alternative source of Conflict Minerals that does not support such conflict.

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT A

Metal  Standard Smelter Name  Smelter ID  RMI Audit Status
Gold Abington Reldan Metals, LLC CID002708 Not Enrolled
Gold Advanced Chemical Company CID000015 Conformant
Gold African Gold Refinery CID003185 Not Enrolled
Gold Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. CID000019 Conformant
Gold Al Etihad Gold LLC CID002560 Conformant
Gold Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. CID000035 Conformant

 

 

 

Gold Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) CID000041 Conformant
Gold AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração CID000058 Conformant
Gold Argor-Heraeus S.A. CID000077 Conformant
Gold Asahi Pretec Corp. CID000082 Conformant
Gold Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. CID000924 Conformant
Gold Asahi Refining USA Inc. CID000920 Conformant
Gold Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. CID000090 Conformant
Gold Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. CID000103 Not Enrolled
Gold AU Traders and Refiners CID002850 Conformant
Gold Aurubis AG CID000113 Conformant
Gold Bangalore Refinery CID002863 Active
Gold Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) CID000128 Conformant
Gold Boliden AB CID000157 Conformant
Gold C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG CID000176 Conformant
Gold Caridad CID000180 Not Enrolled
Gold CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation CID000185 Conformant
Gold Cendres + Métaux S.A. CID000189 Conformant
Gold Chimet S.p.A. CID000233 Conformant
Gold Chugai Mining CID000264 Not Enrolled
Gold Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. CID000328 Conformant
Gold Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. CID000343 Not Enrolled
Gold Degussa Sonne / Mond Goldhandel GmbH CID002867 Not Enrolled
Gold DODUCO Contacts and Refining GmbH CID000362 Conformant
Gold Dowa CID000401 Conformant
Gold DS PRETECH Co., Ltd. CID003195 Active
Gold DSC (Do Sung Corporation) CID000359 Conformant

 

 

 

Gold Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. CID000425 Conformant
Gold Elemetal Refining, LLC CID001322 Not Enrolled
Gold Emirates Gold DMCC CID002561 Conformant
Gold Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. CID002515 Not Enrolled
Gold GCC Gujrat Gold Centre Pvt. Ltd. CID002852 Not Enrolled
Gold Geib Refining Corporation CID002459 Conformant
Gold Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. CID002243 Conformant
Gold Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM CID001909 Not Enrolled
Gold Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited CID002312 Not Enrolled
Gold Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. CID000651 Not Enrolled
Gold Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. CID000671 Not Enrolled
Gold HeeSung CID000689 Conformant
Gold Heimerle + Meule GmbH CID000694 Conformant
Gold Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. CID000707 Conformant
Gold Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG CID000711 Conformant
Gold Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. CID000767 Not Enrolled
Gold Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd. CID000778 Not Enrolled
Gold Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. CID000801 Conformant
Gold Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. CID000807 Conformant
Gold Istanbul Gold Refinery CID000814 Conformant
Gold Italpreziosi CID002765 Conformant
Gold Japan Mint CID000823 Conformant
Gold Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. CID000855 Conformant
Gold JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant CID000927 Conformant
Gold JSC Uralelectromed CID000929 Conformant
Gold JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. CID000937 Conformant

 

 

 

Gold Kaloti Precious Metals CID002563 Not Enrolled
Gold Kazakhmys Smelting LLC CID000956 Not Enrolled
Gold Kazzinc CID000957 Conformant
Gold Kennecott Utah Copper LLC CID000969 Conformant
Gold KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna CID002511 Active
Gold Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. CID000981 Conformant
Gold Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. CID002605 Conformant
Gold Kyrgyzaltyn JSC CID001029 Conformant
Gold Kyshtym Copper-Electrolytic Plant ZAO CID002865 Not Enrolled
Gold L'azurde Company For Jewelry CID001032 Not Enrolled
Gold Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. CID001056 Not Enrolled
Gold Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. CID001058 Not Enrolled
Gold L'Orfebre S.A. CID002762 Active
Gold LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. CID001078 Conformant
Gold Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. CID001093 Not Enrolled
Gold Marsam Metals CID002606 Conformant
Gold Materion CID001113 Conformant
Gold Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. CID001119 Conformant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. CID001149 Conformant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. CID001152 Conformant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. CID001147 Conformant
Gold Metalor Technologies S.A. CID001153 Conformant
Gold Metalor USA Refining Corporation CID001157 Conformant
Gold Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V. CID001161 Conformant
Gold Mitsubishi Materials Corporation CID001188 Conformant
Gold Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. CID001193 Conformant

 

 

 

Gold MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. CID002509 Conformant
Gold Modeltech Sdn Bhd CID002857 Active
Gold Morris and Watson CID002282 Not Enrolled
Gold Morris and Watson Gold Coast CID002866 Not Enrolled
Gold Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant CID001204 Conformant
Gold Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. CID001220 Conformant
Gold Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat CID001236 Not Enrolled
Gold NH Recytech Company CID003189 Active
Gold Nihon Material Co., Ltd. CID001259 Conformant
Gold Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH CID002779 Conformant
Gold Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. CID001325 Conformant
Gold OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) CID001326 Conformant
Gold OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery CID000493 Conformant
Gold PAMP S.A. CID001352 Conformant
Gold Pease & Curren CID002872 Not Enrolled
Gold Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. CID001362 Not Enrolled
Gold Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA CID002919 Conformant
Gold Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals CID001386 Conformant
Gold PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk CID001397 Conformant
Gold PX Précinox S.A. CID001498 Conformant
Gold Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. CID001512 Conformant
Gold Refinery of Seemine Gold Co., Ltd. CID000522 Not Enrolled
Gold Remondis Argentia B.V. CID002582 Active
Gold Republic Metals Corporation CID002510 Conformant
Gold Royal Canadian Mint CID001534 Conformant
Gold SAAMP CID002761 Conformant

 

 

 

Gold Sabin Metal Corp. CID001546 Not Enrolled
Gold Safimet S.p.A CID002973 Conformant
Gold SAFINA A.S. CID002290 Active
Gold Sai Refinery CID002853 Not Enrolled
Gold Samduck Precious Metals CID001555 Conformant
Gold SAMWON Metals Corp. CID001562 Not Enrolled
Gold SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH CID002777 Conformant
Gold Schone Edelmetaal B.V. CID001573 Conformant
Gold SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A. CID001585 Conformant
Gold Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd. CID001619 Not Enrolled
Gold Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. CID001622 Conformant
Gold Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. CID001736 Conformant
Gold Singway Technology Co., Ltd. CID002516 Conformant
Gold SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals CID001756 Conformant
Gold Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. CID001761 Conformant
Gold State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology CID003153 Not Enrolled
Gold Sudan Gold Refinery CID002567 Not Enrolled
Gold Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. CID001798 Conformant
Gold SungEel HiTech CID002918 Conformant
Gold T.C.A S.p.A CID002580 Conformant
Gold Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. CID001875 Conformant
Gold The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. CID001916 Conformant
Gold Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. CID001938 Conformant
Gold Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. CID001947 Not Enrolled
Gold Tony Goetz NV CID002587 Not Enrolled
Gold TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn CID002615 Not Enrolled

 

 

 

Gold Torecom CID001955 Conformant
Gold Umicore Brasil Ltda. CID001977 Conformant
Gold Umicore Precious Metals Thailand CID002314 Conformant
Gold Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining CID001980 Conformant
Gold United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. CID001993 Conformant
Gold Universal Precious Metals Refining Zambia CID002854 Not Enrolled
Gold Valcambi S.A. CID002003 Conformant
Gold Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint CID002030 Conformant
Gold WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH CID002778 Conformant
Gold Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd. CID002100 Conformant
Gold Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. CID002129 Conformant
Gold Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. CID000197 Not Enrolled
Gold Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation CID002224 Conformant
Tantalum Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. CID000092 Conformant
Tantalum Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. CID000211 Conformant
Tantalum D Block Metals, LLC CID002504 Conformant
Tantalum Duoluoshan CID000410 Not Enrolled
Tantalum Exotech Inc. CID000456 Conformant
Tantalum F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. CID000460 Conformant
Tantalum FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. CID002505 Conformant
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals Aizu CID002558 Conformant
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals Boyertown CID002557 Conformant
Tantalum Guangdong Rising Rare Metals-EO Materials Ltd. CID000291 Conformant
Tantalum Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. CID000616 Conformant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. CID002544 Conformant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH CID002547 Conformant

 

 

 

Tantalum H.C. Starck Inc. CID002548 Conformant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Ltd. CID002549 Conformant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG CID002550 Conformant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH CID002545 Conformant
Tantalum Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. CID002492 Conformant
Tantalum Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. CID002512 Conformant
Tantalum Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material CID002842 Conformant
Tantalum Jiujiang Janny New Material Co., Ltd. CID003191 Conformant
Tantalum JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CID000914 Conformant
Tantalum Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. CID000917 Conformant
Tantalum Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. CID002506 Conformant
Tantalum KEMET Blue Metals CID002539 Conformant
Tantalum KEMET Blue Powder CID002568 Conformant
Tantalum King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd. CID000973 Conformant
Tantalum LSM Brasil S.A. CID001076 Conformant
Tantalum Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. CID001163 Conformant
Tantalum Mineracao Taboca S.A. CID001175 Conformant
Tantalum Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. CID001192 Conformant
Tantalum Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. CID001277 Conformant
Tantalum NPM Silmet AS CID001200 Conformant
Tantalum Power Resources Ltd. CID002847 Conformant
Tantalum QuantumClean CID001508 Conformant
Tantalum Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. CID002707 Conformant
Tantalum RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd. CID001522 Conformant
Tantalum Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO CID001769 Conformant
Tantalum Taki Chemicals CID001869 Conformant

 

 

 

Tantalum Telex Metals CID001891 Conformant
Tantalum Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC CID001969 Conformant
Tantalum XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. CID002508 Conformant
Tantalum Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd. CID002307 Conformant
Tin Alpha CID000292 Conformant
Tin An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company CID002703 Not Enrolled
Tin Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. CID000228 Conformant
Tin Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd. CID003190 Active
Tin China Tin Group Co., Ltd. CID001070 Conformant
Tin CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. CID000278 Not Enrolled
Tin CV Ayi Jaya CID002570 Conformant
Tin CV Dua Sekawan CID002592 Conformant
Tin CV Gita Pesona CID000306 Conformant
Tin CV Tiga Sekawan CID002593 Conformant
Tin CV United Smelting CID000315 Conformant
Tin CV Venus Inti Perkasa CID002455 Conformant
Tin Dowa CID000402 Conformant
Tin Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company CID002572 Not Enrolled
Tin EM Vinto CID000438 Conformant
Tin Estanho de Rondônia S.A. CID000448 Not Enrolled
Tin Fenix Metals CID000468 Conformant
Tin Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant CID002848 Conformant
Tin Gejiu Jinye Mineral Company CID002859 Conformant
Tin Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC CID000942 Conformant
Tin Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. CID000538 Conformant
Tin Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. CID001908 Conformant

 

 

 

Tin Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. CID000555 Not Enrolled
Tin Guangdong Hanhe Non-ferrous Metal Limited Company CID003116 Conformant
Tin Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant CID002849 Conformant
Tin HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. CID002844 Conformant
Tin Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. CID000760 Conformant
Tin Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. CID000244 Conformant
Tin Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. CID001231 Conformant
Tin Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. CID002468 Conformant
Tin Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) CID001105 Conformant
Tin Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. CID002500 Conformant
Tin Metallic Resources, Inc. CID001142 Conformant
Tin Metallo Belgium N.V. CID002773 Conformant
Tin Metallo Spain S.L.U. CID002774 Conformant
Tin Mineracao Taboca S.A. CID001173 Conformant
Tin Minsur CID001182 Conformant
Tin Mitsubishi Materials Corporation CID001191 Conformant
Tin Modeltech Sdn Bhd CID002858 Active
Tin Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company CID002573 Not Enrolled
Tin O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. CID001314 Conformant
Tin O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. CID002517 Conformant
Tin Operaciones Metalurgical S.A. CID001337 Conformant
Tin Pongpipat Company Limited CID003208 Not Enrolled
Tin PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera CID000309 Conformant
Tin PT Artha Cipta Langgeng CID001399 Conformant
Tin PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya CID002503 Conformant
Tin PT Babel Inti Perkasa CID001402 Conformant

 

 

 

Tin PT Bangka Prima Tin CID002776 Conformant
Tin PT Bangka Serumpun CID003205 Conformant
Tin PT Bangka Tin Industry CID001419 Conformant
Tin PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera CID001421 Conformant
Tin PT Bukit Timah CID001428 Conformant
Tin PT DS Jaya Abadi CID001434 Conformant
Tin PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri CID001438 Conformant
Tin PT Inti Stania Prima CID002530 Conformant
Tin PT Karimun Mining CID001448 Conformant
Tin PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri CID002829 Conformant
Tin PT Lautan Harmonis Sejahtera CID002870 Conformant
Tin PT Menara Cipta Mulia CID002835 Conformant
Tin PT Mitra Stania Prima CID001453 Conformant
Tin PT O.M. Indonesia CID002757 Conformant
Tin PT Panca Mega Persada CID001457 Conformant
Tin PT Premium Tin Indonesia CID000313 Conformant
Tin PT Prima Timah Utama CID001458 Conformant
Tin PT Refined Bangka Tin CID001460 Conformant
Tin PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa CID001463 Conformant
Tin PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa CID001468 Conformant
Tin PT Sukses Inti Makmur CID002816 Conformant
Tin PT Sumber Jaya Indah CID001471 Conformant
Tin PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur CID001477 Conformant
Tin PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok CID001482 Conformant
Tin PT Tinindo Inter Nusa CID001490 Conformant
Tin PT Tommy Utama CID001493 Conformant

 

 

 

Tin Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. CID002706 Conformant
Tin Rui Da Hung CID001539 Conformant
Tin Soft Metais Ltda. CID001758 Conformant
Tin Super Ligas CID002756 Not Enrolled
Tin Thaisarco CID001898 Conformant
Tin Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company CID002574 Not Enrolled
Tin White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. CID002036 Conformant
Tin Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CID002158 Conformant
Tin Yunnan Tin Company Limited CID002180 Conformant
Tungsten A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. CID000004 Conformant
Tungsten ACL Metais Eireli CID002833 Conformant
Tungsten Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. CID002502 Conformant
Tungsten Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CID002513 Conformant
Tungsten Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID000258 Conformant
Tungsten Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID000499 Conformant
Tungsten Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002645 Active
Tungsten Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CID000875 Conformant
Tungsten Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. CID002315 Conformant
Tungsten Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. CID002494 Conformant
Tungsten Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002536 Not Enrolled
Tungsten Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. CID000568 Conformant
Tungsten Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID000218 Conformant
Tungsten H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG CID002542 Conformant
Tungsten H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH CID002541 Conformant
Tungsten Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. CID000766 Conformant
Tungsten Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji CID002579 Conformant

 

 

 

Tungsten Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CID000769 Conformant
Tungsten Hunan Litian Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. CID003182 Conformant
Tungsten Hydrometallurg, JSC CID002649 Conformant
Tungsten Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. CID000825 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CID002551 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangxi Dayu Longxintai Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002647 Not Enrolled
Tungsten Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002321 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CID002313 Not Enrolled
Tungsten Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. CID002318 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. CID002317 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangxi Xiushui Xianggan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CID002535 Conformant
Tungsten Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002316 Conformant
Tungsten Kennametal Fallon CID000966 Conformant
Tungsten Kennametal Huntsville CID000105 Conformant
Tungsten Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002319 Conformant
Tungsten Moliren Ltd CID002845 Conformant
Tungsten Niagara Refining LLC CID002589 Conformant
Tungsten Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC CID002543 Conformant
Tungsten Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. CID002827 Conformant
Tungsten South-East Nonferrous Metal Company Limited of Hengyang City CID002815 Conformant
Tungsten Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID001889 Conformant
Tungsten Unecha Refractory metals plant CID002724 Conformant
Tungsten Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. CID002011 Conformant
Tungsten Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG CID002044 Conformant
Tungsten Woltech Korea Co., Ltd. CID002843 Conformant
Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. CID002320 Conformant

 

 

 

Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002082 Conformant
Tungsten Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. CID002830 Conformant
Tungsten Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. CID002095 Conformant

 

Country of Origin List:

 

This list below sets out possible countries of origin of 3TGs used in the manufacture of products containing conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of our products. The list is based on publicly available information, our reasonable country of origin investigation, and other due diligence. For the reasons described in the Report, however, these possible countries of origin cannot necessarily be linked to our products.

 

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.