Supply Chain Disclosure Laws Splutter

Sep 25, 2014 | Foreign Policy
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Europe is pushing ahead with rules designed to make companies disclose whether they use minerals mined in conflict zones, but efforts already underway in the United States are having mixed results.

This summer, U.S. companies started making public whether their products possibly contained minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Advocates of that law argue that trade in minerals from the DRC supports armed groups that terrorize, rape, and kill civilians.