Tulane Conducts Conflict Minerals Post-filing survey

Aug 2, 2014 | Payson Center for International Development - Tulane University
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June 2nd, 2014 marked the Form SD submission deadline.  Yet filing was the last step.  Inter alia, affected companies conducted the regulatory applicability and determination analysis, carried out a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry, developed and implemented a due diligence system that included IT systems when necessary, commissioned and prepared for Conflict Mineral Report Audit, and then prepared the SEC report. These considerable efforts have come at a cost, along with externalities. For better or worse, the law has affected the market.

Four years after the President's July 21, 2010 signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and with it provision Section 1502 concerning conflict minerals, and approaching two years after the SEC's August 22, 2012 issuing of Rule 13p-1 and Form SD, from a business and policy-making standpoint, stakeholders need to know how the market, from the micro to the macro level, has responded.  How, specifically, have companies navigated these challenges? What good/best practices have emerged from this unprecedented disclosure law?  What has been the law's economic impact? What is the actual cost associated with companies' responses to the law? All these questions will be answered through this scientifically rigorous cross-sectional survey conducted immediately after the first filing date.

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