Hi Blair,
We've been getting "country of origin" questions about specific components from some of our customers for years, but they've never asked us to connect the dots all the way back to the minerals from countries in conflict. That would be a tough thing to do and kill a lot of trees with all the extra C of C paper shifting back and forth between everyone.

Dale Ritzen, CQA
Quality Manager / ISO Management Representative
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Austin Manufacturing Services


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Subject: [TN] Conflict Minerals

We have been receiving requests from customers for statements thta our products do not have any content of minerals from conflict areas, e.g. Congo. Anyone else getting these? How are you handling them? 

The point behind this is apparently to avoid providing funding of aggressors through the purchase of minerals from areas in conflict. A quick glance at this makes it look even worse than RoHS, now it is not simply the materials in the components, but from where they originate. 

Blair

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