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Exhibit 1.01

Baxter International Inc.

Conflict Minerals Report

For The Year Ended December 31, 2018

This Conflict Minerals Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). Rule 13p-1 under the Exchange Act (Rule 13p-1) imposes certain reporting obligations on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registrants whose manufactured products contain minerals specified in Rule 13p-1 which are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. These minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (collectively 3TG) for the purposes of Rule 13p-1. These requirements apply to registrants whatever the geographic origin of the 3TGs and whether or not they fund armed conflict.

Certain products manufactured by Baxter International Inc. (Baxter or the Company) are comprised of materials and components that contain 3TG that are necessary to the functionality and/or production of such product (see “Product Description” below). Due to the depth of its supply chain, the Company is far removed from the sources of ore from which these metals are produced and the smelters and refiners that process those ores. Additionally, the amount of information available globally on the traceability and sourcing of these ores is extremely limited, which is a situation that is not unique to the Company. As a result, the efforts undertaken by the Company to identify the countries of origin of those ores reflect the Company’s respective position in the supply chain and the challenge presented to it by the limited availability of information. The Company has taken steps to identify the applicable smelters and refiners of the 3TG in its supply chain and their respective source, but in general, the Company believes that these smelters and refiners are best situated to identify the sources and countries of origin of these metals. The efforts described herein were undertaken on the products manufactured by the Company (as described below) during the year ended 2018.

Product Description

The Company manages its business based on three geographical segments: Americas (North and South America), EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia-Pacific). Each of the Company’s segments provide a broad portfolio of essential healthcare products, including acute and chronic dialysis therapies; sterile intravenous (IV) solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition therapies; inhaled anesthetics; generic injectable pharmaceuticals; and surgical hemostat and sealant products.

For the year ended December 31, 2018, this Conflict Minerals Report covers products manufactured by the Company for its segments. The following Company products are subject to disclosure under Rule 13p-1: hemodialysis machines, monitors and infusion pumps. The table below provides examples of where 3TG may be present in the Company’s products:

 

Metal

 

Industry Applications

 

Applications in Baxter

Tantalum

Refined from Columbite-tantalite (coltan)

  Capacitors, resistors   Tantalum Capacitors, Alloys

Tin

Refined from Cassiterite

  Chemical solutions, capacitors, electrodes, Tin alloys, dioxide, electroplating   Integrated Circuits, Pins, Resistors, Capacitors, PCBs, and Soldering

Tungsten

Refined from Wolframite

  Tungsten Carbide, Alloy, light bulb, heating elements, and Tungsten Inert Gas Welding   Electrodes, Welding
Gold   Electrical wiring, connectors, contact, and gold plating   Contacts, Pins, Connectors, Cable Harness, Wire Harness, gold plating


Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI)

Direct suppliers of materials reasonably believed to contain 3TG were asked to provide answers to the Responsible Minerals Initiative’s (RMI) Conflict Mineral Reporting Template (CMRT) reflecting the Company’s position in the supply chain as described above. The RMI CMRT is regarded as the preferred reporting tool for 3TG content and sourcing information worldwide.

The Company, in conjunction with its third-party vendor, reviewed the CMRTs received for completeness and consistency of answers. Suppliers were asked to provide corrections and clarifications where needed. As a result, the Company believes that its RCOI process was reasonably designed and performed in good faith.

In 2018, the Company surveyed 298 significant suppliers, as determined by the Company, of which 86% responded. However, these responses reflect the supplier’s overall supply chain and do not specify whether the 3TG was used in materials supplied to the Company.

Due diligence

Design of due diligence

The Company’s overall Conflict Minerals Program is designed to conform to the five-step framework of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas and the relevant supplements on 3TG, as applicable to the Company’s circumstances and position in the supply chain as a “downstream” company with no direct influence on smelters and refiners. The Company designed its due diligence measures to conform in all material respects with the due diligence framework relevant to 3TGs provided by the OECD.

The large majority of the responses received provided data at the supplier company level or a division/segment level relative to the supplier, rather than at a level directly relating to a product supplied to us, or were otherwise unable to specify the smelters or refiners used for components supplied to us. We were therefore unable to determine whether the 3TG that these suppliers reported were contained in components or parts that the suppliers supplied to us or to validate that any of these smelters or refiners are actually in our supply chain.

Due diligence performed

Establish strong company management systems

Conflict minerals policy

The Company’s position on 3TGs is publicly posted at https://www.baxter.com/policies-positions/conflict-minerals-policy-position-statement. The inclusion of our website within this filing is not intended to incorporate by reference any materials other than the Form SD, Conflict Minerals Report and Conflict Minerals Policy included therein.

Internal team

In 2018, the internal Conflict Minerals Core Team (Core Team) consisted of representatives from the Company’s purchasing and supplier management, environmental compliance, legal, and supplier quality functions. This Core Team reports regularly to senior management on direct suppliers’ responses to 3TGs information requests. The Core Team governs our conflict minerals compliance effort and is responsible for providing guidance and direction for the implementation of our Conflict Minerals Program.

We have also taken on other management systems that include the use of a third-party vendor. Through our vendor’s tool, we are able to collect and store supplier data and CMRTs, communicate with suppliers, and monitor risks in our supply chain. The use of these tools and services has allowed us to assist our suppliers in understanding our expectations and requirements and increase the rate of responses we have received from our suppliers to our survey requests.


Control systems and grievance mechanism

Controls include a Code of Conduct (Code) that outlines expected behaviors for all employees, contractors, agents and third parties. This Code is publicly available on our website at http://www.baxter.com/inside-baxter/about/corporate-governance/code-of-conduct.page. To this end, anyone can utilize our Ethics and Compliance Hotline as detailed in our Code to proactively report a violation of our Code or policies, including our Conflict Minerals Policy and related program efforts.

Maintain records

We have maintained company-wide document retention policies. These policies extend to the documentation accumulated in performing our due diligence procedures and provides for the maintenance of documentation for a period of 10 years.

Supplier engagement

With respect to the OECD objective to strengthen engagement with suppliers, we have utilized the CMRT version 5.11 or higher and a third-party vendor’s web-based reporting tool for collecting conflict minerals declarations from our supply base. The use of these tools has allowed us to assist our suppliers in understanding our expectations and requirements and increase the rate of responses we have received from our suppliers to our survey requests.

We have also communicated with suppliers potentially affected by our Conflict Minerals Policy and compliance efforts as identified through our RCOI process our expectation that they assist us in complying with our efforts related to our Conflict Minerals Program. This includes obtaining information to support chain of custody of the 3TG identified in our products. We have provided suppliers access to our Conflict Minerals Policy through the website above or upon request.

We continue to emphasize supplier education and training. To accomplish this, we utilized our third-party vendor’s learning management system and provided all in-scope suppliers access to their conflict minerals training course. This training was tracked and evaluated based on completion. All suppliers were encouraged to complete all modules within this course.

Identify and assess risks in the supply chain

Due to the complexity of our products and the depth, breadth, and constant changes to our supply chain, it is difficult to identify sub-tier suppliers from our direct suppliers. We have relied on supplier responses to provide us with the information about the source of conflict minerals contained in the parts and components they supply to us.

Similarly, our direct suppliers also rely on information provided by their suppliers. This chain of information creates a level of uncertainty and risk related to the accuracy of the information. We will continue to monitor, adapt, and modify our due diligence practices to conform to the recognized industry best practices.

In accordance with OECD Guidelines, it is important to understand risk levels associated with conflict minerals in the supply chain. The basis of this understanding stems from smelter or refiner (SOR) information. 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.

We also calculate overall supplier risk based on the risk ratings of the smelters declared by that supplier on their CMRT.

Additionally, suppliers are evaluated on program strength (further 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 Rule 13P-1, however evaluating and tracking the strength of the program does meet the OECD Guidelines and can assist in making key risk mitigation decisions as the program progresses. The criteria (items A, E, G and H from the CMRT) 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 the above criteria, they are deemed to have a strong program. When suppliers do not meet those criteria, they are deemed to have a weak program.

As a member of the RMI (Member Company ID: 5456), we support engagement by the RMI with SOR(s) and the obtainment of information on country of mineral origin, transit and transportation routes used between mine and smelters/refiners. We also support the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), which includes an assessment of whether SORs have carried out all five steps of due diligence for responsible supply chains of 3TG from the DRC and adjoining countries and contribute directly to the RMI’s RMAP, which uses an independent third-party audit to identify smelters and refiners that have systems in place to assure sourcing of only conflict-free materials.

We believe that the inquiries and investigations described above represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the 3TG in our Covered Products, including (1) seeking information about 3TG 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.

Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks

We report our findings annually to the Core Team prior to the issuance of Form SD and this Conflict Minerals Report. We also report any significant due diligence findings to the Core Team as they arise. For example, if we find that we source 3TG that directly or indirectly finances or benefits armed groups in the Covered Countries, Baxter will assess the supplier relationship and encourage the supplier in question to establish an alternative source of 3TG that does not support such conflict. We have found no instance where it was necessary to implement risk mitigation efforts as a result of a supplier’s response to our information request.

Based on the smelter or refiner risk criteria noted above, for any facilities identified as being of highest concern to the supply chain as reported on a CMRT by any of the suppliers surveyed, risk mitigation activities were initiated. Through our third-party vendor, submissions that include any of these high risk 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 Baxter, 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. Furthermore, suppliers are guided to our third-party vendor’s learning management system to engage in educational materials on mitigating the risk of smelters or refiners on the supply chain.

As a member of the RMI, we exercised leverage over upstream suppliers as the RMI provides in-region components of risk assessment and mitigation. Additionally, through this membership, we support the RMI’s efforts to monitor whether SOR(s) demonstrate significant and measurable improvement within six months from the adoption of their risk management plans and, as noted above, we support the RMI’s independent third party audits of the SOR’s due diligence practices through the RMAP.

Carry-out independent third party audit of supply chain due diligence at identified points in the supply chain

We do not have a direct relationship with smelters and refiners and therefore do not perform or direct audits of these entities. However, as noted above, we support the independent third-party audits of the SOR’s due diligence practices through the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process.


Report on supply chain due diligence

This Conflict Minerals Report, which constitutes our annual report on our due diligence efforts, is available on our website at https://www.baxter.com/policies-positions/conflict-minerals-policy-position-statement. The inclusion of our website within this filing is not intended to incorporate by reference any materials other than the Form SD, Conflict Minerals Report and Conflict Minerals Policy included therein.

Results of due diligence

Survey results

As described above, Baxter actively surveys our supply chain and reviews the responses against criteria developed to determine whether further engagement is required. These criteria include: untimely responses, incomplete responses and inconsistencies within the data reported in the CMRT.

As of May 6th, 2019, we received responses from 86% of our 298 surveyed suppliers for the 2018 year.

Efforts to determine mine or location of origin

Given that we do not have relationships with the ultimate smelters and refiners from which the 3TG in our products is sourced, we have determined that requesting our suppliers to complete the RMI Template and supporting the RMI programs and initiatives represent our good faith effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of 3TG in our supply chain.

Smelters and refiners

Of the suppliers surveyed, many completed the RMI template at the company, business unit or entity level and are unable to represent that 3TG from the processing facilities they listed had actually been included in components that they supplied to us. The quality of the responses that we received from our surveyed suppliers continue to be varied. Many of the responses provided by supplier via the CMRT included the names of facilities listed by the suppliers as smelters or refiners. The CMRTs submitted by suppliers that do not list at least one smelter for each 3TG claimed on the CMRT are considered invalid and our third-party provider follows up on these, urging suppliers to resubmit the form and include smelter information. There are still suppliers that are unable to provide SORs used for the materials supplied to us.

Based on the smelter list provided by suppliers via the CMRTs and publicly available information, we have identified 254 smelters that are deemed RMAP Conformant – this indicates these smelters or refiners are compliant with the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process assessment protocols. There are 7 more smelters or refiners that are deemed RMAP Active – smelters and refiners on the Active list have committed to undergo a RMAP audit or are participating in one of the cross-recognized certification programs: LBMA Responsible Gold Certification or Responsible Jewelry Program Chain-of-Custody Certification. The remaining 59 smelters listed have not yet been confirmed as Conflict-Free or are not part of RMAP. We have assessed these facilities and determined that most of these are of low risk due to their geographic location.

As detailed above, risk mitigation activities were initiated on the suppliers submitting high risk entries in their CMRT. These smelters or refiners, however, may not be present in the Baxter supply chain as these Baxter suppliers were only able to provide company-level CMRTs which do not directly link those smelters or refiners to the products they provide to Baxter.

Appendix A lists the smelters and refiners that the suppliers we surveyed reported as being in their supply chains. We have not listed in Appendix A any smelters or refiners that our third-party has not been able to validate. Appendix B includes an aggregate list of the countries of origin from which the reported facilities collectively source conflict minerals, based on information provided by suppliers and the RMI.


Steps to be taken

We expect to continue our Conflict Minerals Program and related due diligence. Our next steps may include, but are not limited to the following:

 

 

Engage with suppliers and direct them to training resources increasing the number of suppliers who utilize our third-party vendor’s learning management system, with a goal of increasing our response rate, improving the content of responses and enhancing our RCOI process and efforts to determine the processing facilities for and country of origin of our 3TG with the greatest specificity possible;

 

 

Via our third-party vendor, increase the emphasis on clean and validated smelter and refiner information from our supply chain as the list of conflict-free smelters and refiners grows and more smelters and refiners declare their intent to enroll in the program

 

 

Via our third-party vendor, encourage our suppliers to have due diligence procedures in place for their supply chains to improve the content of the responses from such suppliers.


Appendix A:

The following smelters and refiners were reported by our suppliers as being in their supply chains.

 

Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

Gold    8853 S.p.A.    Italy
Gold    Abington Reldan Metals, LLC    United States
Gold    Advanced Chemical Company    United States
Gold    African Gold Refinery    Uganda
Gold    Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Al Etihad Gold LLC    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 S.A.    Switzerland
Gold    Asahi Pretec Corp.    Japan
Gold    Asahi Refining Canada Ltd.    Canada
Gold    Asahi Refining USA Inc.    United States
Gold    Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.    Turkey
Gold    AU Traders and Refiners    South Africa
Gold    Aurubis AG    Germany
Gold    Bangalore Refinery    India
Gold    Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)    Philippines
Gold    Boliden AB    Sweden
Gold    C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG    Germany
Gold    Caridad    Mexico
Gold    CCR Refinery – Glencore Canada Corporation    Canada
Gold    Cendres + Métaux S.A.    Switzerland
Gold    Chimet S.p.A.    Italy
Gold    Chugai Mining    Japan
Gold    Daejin Indus Co., Ltd.    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd.    China
Gold    Degussa Sonne / Mond Goldhandel GmbH    Germany
Gold    Dijllah Gold Refinery FZC    United Arab Emirates
Gold    DODUCO Contacts and Refining GmbH    Germany
Gold    Dowa    Japan
Gold    DS PRETECH Co., Ltd.    Korea, Republic of


Gold    DSC (Do Sung Corporation)    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Emirates Gold DMCC    United Arab Emirates
Gold    Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd.    Zimbabwe
Gold    Fujairah Gold FZE    United Arab Emirates
Gold    GCC Gujrat Gold Centre Pvt. Ltd.    India
Gold    Geib Refining Corporation    United States
Gold    Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd.    China
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    HeeSung    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Heimerle + Meule GmbH    Germany
Gold    Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd.    China
Gold    Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG    Germany
Gold    Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Hunan Guiyang yinxing Nonferrous Smelting Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd.    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    International Precious Metal Refiners    United Arab Emirates
Gold    Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Istanbul Gold Refinery    Turkey
Gold    Italpreziosi    Italy
Gold    Japan Mint    Japan
Gold    Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant    Russian Federation
Gold    JSC Uralelectromed    Russian Federation
Gold    JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.    Japan
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 Miedz Spolka Akcyjna    Poland
Gold    Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Korea Zinc Co., Ltd.    Korea, Republic of


Gold    Kyrgyzaltyn JSC    Kyrgyzstan
Gold    Kyshtym Copper-Electrolytic Plant ZAO    Russian Federation
Gold    L’azurde Company For Jewelry    Saudi Arabia
Gold    Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    L’Orfebre S.A.    Andorra
Gold    LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Marsam Metals    Brazil
Gold    Materion    United States
Gold    Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.    China
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.    Singapore
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.    China
Gold    Metalor Technologies S.A.    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    Modeltech Sdn Bhd    Malaysia
Gold    Morris and Watson    New Zealand
Gold    Morris and Watson Gold Coast    Australia
Gold    Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant    Russian Federation
Gold    Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.    Turkey
Gold    Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat    Uzbekistan
Gold    NH Recytech Company    Korea, Republic of
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 Novosibirsk Refinery    Russian Federation
Gold    PAMP S.A.    Switzerland
Gold    Pease & Curren    United States
Gold    Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd.    China


Gold    Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA    Chile
Gold    Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals    Russian Federation
Gold    PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk    Indonesia
Gold    PX Précinox S.A.    Switzerland
Gold    QG Refining, LLC    United States
Gold    Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.    South Africa
Gold    Refinery of Seemine Gold Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Remondis Argentia B.V.    Netherlands
Gold    Republic Metals Corporation    United States
Gold    Royal Canadian Mint    Canada
Gold    SAAMP    France
Gold    Sabin Metal Corp.    United States
Gold    Safimet S.p.A    Italy
Gold    SAFINA A.S.    Czech Republic
Gold    Sai Refinery    India
Gold    Samduck Precious Metals    Korea, Republic of
Gold    SAMWON Metals Corp.    Korea, Republic of
Gold    SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH    Germany
Gold    SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A.    Spain
Gold    Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Shangdong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.    China
Gold    Singway Technology Co., Ltd.    Taiwan
Gold    SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals    Russian Federation
Gold    Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.    Taiwan
Gold    State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology    Lithuania
Gold    Sudan Gold Refinery    Sudan
Gold    Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.    Japan
Gold    SungEel HiTech    Korea, Republic of
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    TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn    Kazakhstan
Gold    Torecom    Korea, Republic of
Gold    Umicore Brasil Ltda.    Brazil
Gold    Umicore Precious Metals Thailand    Thailand
Gold    Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining    Belgium
Gold    United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.    United States
Gold    Universal Precious Metals Refining Zambia    Zambia
Gold    Valcambi S.A.    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
Tantalum    Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.    Japan
Tantalum    Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.    China
Tantalum    D Block Metals, LLC    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 Rising Rare Metals-EO Materials Ltd.    China
Tantalum    Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.    China
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.    Thailand
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    H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH    Germany
Tantalum    Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.    China
Tantalum    Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.    China
Tantalum    Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material    China
Tantalum    Jiujiang Janny New Material Co., Ltd.    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    LSM Brasil S.A.    Brazil
Tantalum    Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.    India
Tantalum    Mineracao Taboca S.A.    Brazil
Tantalum    Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.    Japan
Tantalum    Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.    China
Tantalum    NPM Silmet AS    Estonia
Tantalum    Power Resources Ltd.    Macedonia
Tantalum    QuantumClean    United States
Tantalum    Resind Industria e Comercio 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    Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC    Kazakhstan
Tantalum    XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    Alpha    United States
Tin    An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company    Vietnam
Tin    Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    China Tin Group Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    CV Ayi Jaya    Indonesia
Tin    CV Dua Sekawan    Indonesia
Tin    CV Gita Pesona    Indonesia
Tin    CV Tiga Sekawan    Indonesia
Tin    CV United Smelting    Indonesia
Tin    CV Venus Inti Perkasa    Indonesia
Tin    Dongguan CiEXPO Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    Dowa    Japan
Tin    Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company    Vietnam
Tin    EM Vinto    Bolivia
Tin    Estanho de Rondônia S.A.    Brazil
Tin    Fenix Metals    Poland


Tin    Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy 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    Guangdong Hanhe Non-ferrous Metal Limited Company    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 New Nanshan Technology 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    Metallic Resources, Inc.    United States
Tin    Metallo Belgium N.V.    Belgium
Tin    Metallo Spain S.L.U.    Spain
Tin    Mineracao Taboca S.A.    Brazil
Tin    Minsur    Peru
Tin    Mitsubishi Materials Corporation    Japan
Tin    Modeltech Sdn Bhd    Malaysia
Tin    Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company    Vietnam
Tin    O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.    Thailand
Tin    O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.    Philippines
Tin    Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.    Bolivia
Tin    Pongpipat Company Limited    Myanmar
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 Babel Surya Alam Lestari    Indonesia
Tin    PT Bangka Prima Tin    Indonesia
Tin    PT Bangka Serumpun    Indonesia
Tin    PT Bangka Tin Industry    Indonesia
Tin    PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera    Indonesia
Tin    PT Bukit Timah    Indonesia
Tin    PT DS Jaya Abadi    Indonesia


Tin    PT Inti Stania Prima    Indonesia
Tin    PT Karimun Mining    Indonesia
Tin    PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri    Indonesia
Tin    PT Menara Cipta Mulia    Indonesia
Tin    PT Mitra Stania Prima    Indonesia
Tin    PT Panca Mega Persada    Indonesia
Tin    PT Premium Tin Indonesia    Indonesia
Tin    PT Prima Timah Utama    Indonesia
Tin    PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa    Indonesia
Tin    PT Refined Bangka Tin    Indonesia
Tin    PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa    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    Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda.    Brazil
Tin    Rui Da Hung    Taiwan
Tin    Soft Metais Ltda.    Brazil
Tin    Super Ligas    Brazil
Tin    Thaisarco    Thailand
Tin    Tin Technology & Refining    United States
Tin    Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company    Vietnam
Tin    White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.    Brazil
Tin    Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    China
Tin    Yunnan Tin Company Limited    China
Tungsten    A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.    Japan
Tungsten    ACL Metais Eireli    Brazil
Tungsten    Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.    Vietnam
Tungsten    Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd.    China


Tungsten    Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten 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 Smelting GmbH & Co.KG    Germany
Tungsten    H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH    Germany
Tungsten    Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji    China
Tungsten    Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Hunan Litian Tungsten Industry 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 Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.    China
Tungsten    Kennametal Fallon    United States
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    Vietnam
Tungsten    Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc.    Philippines
Tungsten    South-East Nonferrous Metal Company Limited of Hengyang City    China
Tungsten    Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.    Vietnam
Tungsten    Unecha Refractory metals plant    Russian Federation
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


Appendix B:

This list of potential countries of origin is populated based on publicly available information, our RCOI and due diligence. It is important to note that this is also based on company level responses and therefore, it is not certain which of these countries of origin can be linked to our products.

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Benin, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe