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Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI)

The electronics industry initiative (2008–2017) that built the tools used worldwide for conflict-minerals due diligence, renamed the RMI in 2017.

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The Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative was founded in 2008 by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative to help companies source tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold without financing armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries. Its core tools were the Conflict-Free Smelter Program of third-party smelter audits and the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template; it became the principal mechanism supporting compliance with Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act and was renamed the Responsible Minerals Initiative in 2017 as its scope broadened beyond 3TG.

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Overview

What it means

It pioneered shared, industry-wide due diligence rather than company-by-company effort.

How it is used

The CMRT remains the standard supplier-survey tool, and the conformant smelter/refiner list (now the RMAP list) is the industry's reference for conflict-free sourcing; a Cobalt Reporting Template was added in 2018.

Why it matters

CFSI's model of pooled audits and templates now shapes responsible sourcing across minerals, from cobalt to mica.

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