UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 001-05560 | |||||||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | |||||||
5260 California Avenue, Irvine, CA | 92617 | |||||||
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |||||||
Robert J. Terry Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary 949-231-3000 | ||||||||
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact with in connection with this report) | ||||||||
Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed:
þ Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022.
☐ Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13q-1) for the fiscal year ended ___________.
Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (the “Registrant”), has prepared a Conflict Minerals Report, which is attached as Exhibit 1.01 to this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD. This Conflict Minerals Report includes the disclosures required pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Registrant has disclosed its Conflict Minerals Report on its website, www.skyworksinc.com/Sustainability. The information contained on the Registrant’s website is not incorporated by reference in this Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD.
Item 1.02 Exhibit
See Item 1.01 and Item 3.01.
Section 3 – Exhibits
Item 3.01 Exhibits
Exhibit No. | Description | ||||
1.01 | |||||
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.
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | |||||||||||
May 26, 2023 | By: | /s/ Robert J. Terry | |||||||||
| Name: | Robert J. Terry | ||||||||||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | ||||||||||
Exhibit 1.01
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Conflict Minerals Report
For the Calendar Year Ended December 31, 2022
Background
This report for the year ended December 31, 2022, is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Conflict Minerals Rule”). The Conflict Minerals Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to implement due diligence and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Conflict Minerals Rule imposes these due diligence and disclosure requirements on companies that file public reports with the SEC and whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of the products. Conflict minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan), gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, and tungsten (“3TG”). These requirements apply to reporting companies whatever the geographic origin of the conflict minerals and whether or not they fund armed conflict.
If a registrant has reason to believe that any of the conflict minerals in the registrant’s supply chain may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the “Covered Countries”) (or if the registrant is unable to determine the country of origin of those conflict minerals) and did not originate from recycled or scrap sources, then the issuer must exercise due diligence on the conflict minerals’ source and chain of custody. The registrant must submit a Conflict Minerals Report (the “CMR”) to the SEC that includes a description of those due diligence measures.
Overview
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (herein referred to as “Skyworks,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), is empowering the wireless networking revolution. Our highly innovative analog and mixed signal semiconductors are connecting people, places and things spanning a number of new and previously unimagined applications within the aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, defense, entertainment and gaming, industrial, medical, smartphone, tablet, and wearable markets. For a further discussion of our products, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022. The information contained in our Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into, or a part of, this Conflict Minerals Report.
We conducted an analysis of our products, including both products that we manufacture and products that we contract for manufacture, and found that substantially all of these products contain components considered likely to contain 3TG. As a member of the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI member I.D. SWKS), we utilize the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) to survey our supply chain and identify the smelters/refiners in our supply chain. As part of our supplier survey process, we identify
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materials sourcing locations (countries of origin) using resources available to RMI members. Based on the information obtained through our supply chain survey activities of our suppliers whose materials or components contain 3TG, Skyworks has concluded that certain of our products contain 3TG that originated, or may have originated, in the Covered Countries and that is not from recycled or scrap sources.
Skyworks believes our reasonable country of origin inquiry and process was reasonably designed and performed in good faith. We publicly communicate our Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy via our website at www.skyworksinc.com. The content of any website referred to in this Report is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Report.
This CMR describes the due diligence we have performed with respect to the source and chain of custody of our conflict minerals.
Design of Due Diligence Measures Taken
Skyworks has designed its due diligence measures to be in conformity, in all material respects, with the internationally recognized due diligence framework in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Third Edition.
Due Diligence Performed by Skyworks
Skyworks relies on its suppliers to provide information on the origin of the 3TG minerals. Skyworks’ due diligence measures undertaken in calendar year 2022 included, but were not limited to, comparing all smelters and refiners identified via the supply chain survey against the lists of smelters / refiners designated as conformant to the Responsible Minerals Initiative’s (RMI’s) Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), the LBMA Good Delivery List, or the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) Chain of Custody (CofC) Program (all recognized third-party processes).
Skyworks identified 68 in-scope suppliers providing us with 3TG or products containing 3TG that were used in Skyworks’ finished good devices for sale. Skyworks confirmed that 98.5% of identified suppliers provided disclosures of smelters / refiners in their respective supply chains. These disclosures from each supplier indicated that all smelters / refiners were identified and reported to Skyworks. Further, Skyworks confirmed via the due diligence process described above that all smelters / refiners reported were evaluated and recognized as conformant to the RMAP, LBMA Good Delivery List, and/or the RJC CofC Program.
Results for Calendar Year 2022
As disclosed, we had a 98.5% 3TG supplier response rate, and our data results indicated our smelter / refiner supply chain from those respondents as 100% conformant as of December 31, 2022. The facilities the Company believes to be used to process the Company’s necessary conflict minerals include the smelters and refiners listed in Annex A. Countries of origin, to the best of our knowledge, are listed in Annex B.
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In light of our position in the supply chain, our due diligence measures can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance regarding the source and chain of custody of the necessary conflict minerals in our products. We rely on our direct suppliers to provide us with information in this regard, and those suppliers, in turn, generally must seek similar information from within their supply chains to identify the original sources of the necessary conflict minerals. We also rely, to a significant extent, on information collected and provided by independent third-party audit programs. Such sources of information may yield inaccurate or incomplete information and may be subject to fraud.
Independent Private Sector Audit
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. engaged Elm Sustainability Partners LLC to conduct an independent private sector audit of this CMR for the 2022 reporting period. Refer to the audit report attached as Annex C to this CMR.
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Annex A
| Subject Mineral | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country of Smelter or Refiner | ||||||
| Tantalum | AMG Brasil | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| 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 OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf 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 JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | KEMET de Mexico | MEXICO | ||||||
| Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| 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 | QuantumClean | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tantalum | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | ||||||
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS GmbH | GERMANY | ||||||
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tantalum | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Tantalum | Telex Metals | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | KAZAKHSTAN | ||||||
| Tantalum | XIMEI RESOURCES (GUANGDONG) LIMITED | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tantalum | Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Alpha | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tin | Metallo Belgium N.V. | BELGIUM | ||||||
| Tin | Metallo Spain S.L.U. | SPAIN | ||||||
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| 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 | Dowa | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tin | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | ||||||
| Tin | Estanho de Rondonia S.A. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Fabrica Auricchio Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Fenix Metals | POLAND | ||||||
| Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Luna Smelter, Ltd. | RWANDA | ||||||
| Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | MALAYSIA | ||||||
| Tin | Metallic Resources, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tin | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Minsur | PERU | ||||||
| Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | ||||||
| Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | PHILIPPINES | ||||||
| Tin | Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A. | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | ||||||
| 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 Serumpun | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Bukit Timah | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Cipta Persada Mulia | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Menara Cipta Mulia | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Putera Sarana Shakti (PT PSS) | 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 Timah Tbk Kundur | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Timah Tbk Mentok | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | INDONESIA | ||||||
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| Tin | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Rui Da Hung | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Thaisarco | THAILAND | ||||||
| Tin | Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tin | Tin Technology & Refining | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda. | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | Agosi AG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | ||||||
| Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | UZBEKISTAN | ||||||
| Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao | 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 OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Aurubis AG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | Bangalore Refinery | INDIA | ||||||
| Gold | Boliden AB | SWEDEN | ||||||
| Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | CANADA | ||||||
| Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | ITALY | ||||||
| Gold | Chugai Mining | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Dowa | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. East Plant | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Emirates Gold DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | ||||||
| Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | Heraeus Germany GmbH Co. KG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | TURKEY | ||||||
| Gold | Italpreziosi | ITALY | ||||||
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| Gold | Japan Mint | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Kazzinc | KAZAKHSTAN | ||||||
| Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna | POLAND | ||||||
| Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | L'Orfebre S.A. | ANDORRA | ||||||
| Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | LT Metal Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | Materion | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| 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 OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles S.A. De C.V. | MEXICO | ||||||
| Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | PAMP S.A. | SWITZERLAND | ||||||
| Gold | MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | INDIA | ||||||
| Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.S. | TURKEY | ||||||
| Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | UZBEKISTAN | ||||||
| Gold | NH Recytech Company | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Ogussa Osterreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | AUSTRIA | ||||||
| Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA | CHILE | ||||||
| Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | INDONESIA | ||||||
| Gold | PX Precinox S.A. | SWITZERLAND | ||||||
| Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | SOUTH AFRICA | ||||||
| Gold | REMONDIS PMR B.V. | NETHERLANDS | ||||||
| Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CANADA | ||||||
| Gold | SAFINA A.S. | CZECHIA | ||||||
| Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A. | SPAIN | ||||||
| Gold | Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
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| Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | ||||||
| Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | ITALY | ||||||
| Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn | KAZAKHSTAN | ||||||
| Gold | Torecom | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | ||||||
| Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | BELGIUM | ||||||
| Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Gold | Valcambi S.A. | SWITZERLAND | ||||||
| Gold | Western Australian Mint (T/a The Perth Mint) | AUSTRALIA | ||||||
| Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | GERMANY | ||||||
| Gold | Yamakin Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | BRAZIL | ||||||
| Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan 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 | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH | GERMANY | ||||||
| Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | ||||||
| Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten 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 OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
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| Tungsten | Masan High-Tech Materials | VIET NAM | ||||||
| Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | PHILIPPINES | ||||||
| Tungsten | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | ||||||
| Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG | AUSTRIA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
| Tungsten | Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ||||||
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Annex B
Countries of Origin
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Benin
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cote d’Ivoire
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guinea
Germany
Ghana
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Krygyzstan
Laos
Liberia
Malaysia
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Oman
Panama
Papa New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Turkey
Uganda
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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Annex C
INDEPENDENT PRIVATE SECTOR AUDITOR’S REPORT
To the Board of Directors:
elm sustainability partners llc conducted an Independent Private Sector Audit (IPSA) of the Skyworks Solutions, Inc., (“the Company”) Conflict Minerals Report for the reporting period of January 1 to December 31, 2022. We examined evidence relating to the audit objectives set forth in 17 CFR Part 249b.400, Section 1, Item 1.01, which state that the auditor is to express an opinion or conclusion as to:
•whether the design of the Company’s due diligence framework as set forth in the Conflict Minerals Report for reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022, is in conformity, in all material respects, with the criteria set forth in the Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High- Risk Areas, Third Edition 2016 (“OECD Due Diligence Guidance”), and
•whether the Company’s description of the due diligence measures it performed, as set forth in the Conflict Minerals Report for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022, is consistent with the due diligence process that the Company undertook.
Management is responsible for the design of the Company’s due diligence framework, the description of the Company’s due diligence measures set forth in the Conflict Minerals Report and performance of the due diligence measures. Our responsibility is to express an opinion or conclusion in relation to the stated audit objectives. The mandated audit objectives and our examination did not include evaluating:
•The consistency of the due diligence measures that the Company performed with either the design of the Company’s due diligence framework or the OECD Due Diligence Guidance;
•The completeness of the Company’s description of the due diligence measures performed;
•The suitability of the design or operating effectiveness of the Company’s due diligence process;
•Whether a third party can determine from the Conflict Minerals Report if the due diligence measures the Company performed are consistent with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance;
•The Company’s reasonable country of origin inquiry (RCOI), including the suitability of the design of the RCOI, its operating effectiveness, or the results thereof;
•The adequacy or completeness of the Company’s applicability determinations of parts, components, materials or products used, sold, manufactured by or for the Company;
•The Company’s conclusions about the source or chain of custody of its conflict minerals, components, materials or products used, sold, manufactured by or for the Company; or
•The operational status during the reporting period of any disclosed smelter or refiner.
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We do not express an opinion or offer any other form of conclusion or assurance on those or any other matters in any section of the Conflict Minerals Report other than the sections titled Design of Due Diligence Measures Taken and Due Diligence Performed by Skyworks.
Audit planning began March 21, 2023 and the audit activities were conducted between March 23, 2023 and April 28, 2023. The audit was conducted remotely using web-based file sharing and teleconference calls. No impairments or threats to our independence as an auditor were identified prior to, during or after this audit. As the basis for this audit, the Company provided the Conflict Minerals Report that was current on March 21, 2023. For the first audit objective, we reviewed the following audit evidence and compared it to the OECD Due Diligence Guidance: (a) detailed conflict minerals program documentation relating to each of the five steps, (b) evidence of data management, program execution and controls, and (c) interviews with the individual directly involved in executing the conflict minerals program; thereby providing reasonable assurance that the design of the due diligence framework described in the section of the Conflict Minerals Report titled Design of Due Diligence Measures Taken is in conformity with, in all material respects, the OECD Due Diligence Guidance. For the second audit objective, we reviewed 100% of the information provided by the Company documenting that it undertook the due diligence measures described in the section of the Conflict Minerals Report titled Due Diligence Performed by Skyworks. We also conducted interviews with the individual directly involved in performing those due diligence measures. The Audit Team Leader and internal quality control reviewer is a senior level Principal that hold certifications from the Board of Environmental Auditor Certifications, an independent accredited certification body that requires conformance to established ethics, independence requirements and annual continuing education. The original auditor’s notes were evaluated by the internal quality control reviewer to confirm that the audit work performed and evidence obtained supports the findings or conclusions in this audit report. Additional information on our firm’s audit quality assurance practices and the external Peer Review report on our conformance to the generally accepted government auditing standards (“Yellow Book”) Performance Audit standards is available on our website.
Management was provided an opportunity to review and offer comments on a draft of this report and had no comments to the draft report.
In our opinion,
•the design of the Company’s due diligence framework as set forth in the section of the Conflict Minerals Report titled Design of Due Diligence Measures Taken for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022, is in conformity, in all material respects, with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, and
•the Company’s description of the due diligence measures it performed as set forth in section of the Conflict Minerals Report titled Due Diligence Performed by Skyworks for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022 is consistent with the due diligence process that the Company undertook.
We conducted this performance audit in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings based on our audit objectives.
Foothill Ranch, California
May 1, 2023
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