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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170505

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001132924
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RADIO TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS [4812]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000

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		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-31731
		FILM NUMBER:		17816030

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		21 3 HSINYI RD SECTION 1
		STREET 2:		TAIPEI TAIWAN REPUBLIC OF CHINAA
		CITY:			TAIPEI TAIWAN
		STATE:			XX
		ZIP:			10048
		BUSINESS PHONE:		886223445488

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		STREET 1:		21 3 HSINYI RD SECTION 1
		STREET 2:		TAIPEI TAIWAN REPUBLIC OF CHINA
		CITY:			TAIPEI TAIWAN
		STATE:			XX
		ZIP:			10048
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-right:2pt"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">OMB APPROVAL</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:2pt"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">OMB Number: 3235-0697</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Expires: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;June 30, 2019</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Estimated average burden</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">hours per
response&#133;.480.61</P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM SD
</B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Specialized Disclosure Report </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Chunghwa
Telecom Co., Ltd. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>Taiwan, Republic of China</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">001-31731</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction&nbsp;of</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>incorporation or organization)</B></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>File Number)</B></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Identification No.)</B></P></TD></TR>
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Republic of China</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of principal executive offices)</B></P></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Jason Huang, telephone: +886 2 2344-4576, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">21-3</FONT> Hsinyi Road, Section&nbsp;1, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.) </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form
applies: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Website </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The conflict minerals disclosure below is also available on our website at
<U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">http://www.cht.com.tw/en/ir/stockit-sec.html</FONT></U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Introduction to Our Conflicts Minerals Program.
</I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. has implemented a conflicts minerals program and incorporated such program into our overall corporate
compliance program. Throughout this report, &#147;CHT&#148;, &#147;we&#148;, &#147;us&#148; or &#147;our&#148; means Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. and its consolidated subsidiaries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have adopted the following policy as part of our conflicts minerals program. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>We are committed to sourcing raw materials from companies that share our values regarding respect for human rights, integrity and
environmental responsibility. We are committed to complying with Section&nbsp;1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which aims to prevent the use of minerals containing tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (&#147;3TGs&#148;) that directly or indirectly finance or
benefit armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or in adjoining countries (&#147;conflict minerals&#148;). Each of our suppliers that provide 3TGs is required to provide evidence of such supplier&#146;s compliance with relevant
laws with respect to conflict minerals and documenting countries of origin for the 3TGs that it supplies, such as completing the Conflict Mineral Reporting Template of the Electric Industry Citizenship Coalition<SUP
STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">&reg;</SUP> and the Global <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">e-Sustainability</FONT> Initiative (&#147;EICC&#151;GeSI Reporting Template&#148;).</I> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To implement this commitment, we conducted a detailed annual review since 2013 of our purchases of minerals necessary to the functionality of
our products that we manufactured to determine whether we purchase any conflict minerals. For purposes of this item, conflict mineral means: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) Columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten, unless
the Secretary of State determines that additional derivatives are financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) Any other material or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
or an adjoining country. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We are the largest telecommunications service provider in Taiwan and one of the largest in Asia in terms of
revenue. As an integrated telecommunications service provider, our principal services include: (i)&nbsp;domestic fixed communications services, including local and domestic long distance telephone services, broadband access services, local and
domestic long distance leased line services, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Wi-Fi</FONT> services, MOD services, domestic data services and other domestic services; (ii)&nbsp;mobile communications services, including mobile voice and data
services, sales of mobile handsets, tablets, data cards and other mobile services; (iii)&nbsp;internet services, including data communication services, such as HiNet, application value-added services, or VAS, and services provided to the government;
(iv)&nbsp;international fixed communications services, including international long distance telephone services, international leased line services, international data services, satellite services and other international services; and (v)&nbsp;other
services, including <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-telecom</FONT> services. In addition to these traditional telecommunication services, we also focus on selected ICT services and advanced development. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In our annual evaluation, we evaluated all of our business activities to determine if we manufactured any products in 2016. For each of the
products we manufactured, we performed inquiries such as (i)&nbsp;examining records of third party purchases of materials used in our products during 2014, 2015 and 2016, (ii) examining each material we purchased in 2016 for metal content to
determine whether any of the purchased materials contained any 3TGs, and (iii)&nbsp;sending a letter requesting the completion of the EICC&#151;GeSI Reporting Template to each supplier from whom we purchase materials. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Based on this evaluation, we determined that (i)&nbsp;our subsidiary, Chunghwa Leading Photonics Tech Co., Ltd., an entity spun off from our
research and development division in 2016, manufactured and sold photo detectors, and the raw materials it used to manufacture such photo detectors contained gold, which was necessary for the functionality of such photo detectors; and (ii)&nbsp;our
subsidiary, Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. Co., Ltd., manufactured and sold components used in semiconductor testing equipment, and the raw materials used in the manufacturing of such components contained gold and tin, which were necessary for the
functionality of such components. No other necessary 3TGs were identified in this evaluation. As a result, we believe that gold and tin are the only 3TGs used in any product that we manufactured in 2016 that were necessary for the respective
products&#146; functionality. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We also were required to conduct a reasonable country of origin inquiry (&#147;RCOI&#148;) with respect to gold and tin given their necessity
for the functionality of the products we manufactured in 2016, as illustrated above. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For our subsidiary, Chunghwa Leading Photonics Tech
Co., Ltd., we determined that all of the gold used during 2016 was purchased in 2016 through a single supplier, on which we performed an RCOI with respect to the gold we purchased from this supplier. As part of the RCOI we performed, we determined
that our sole supplier of gold in 2016 has been deemed a Conflict-Free Gold Refiner and in compliance with the Conflict-Free Smelter protocol, which is a voluntary global initiative developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
(&#147;EICC&#148;) and the Global <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">e-Sustainability</FONT> Initiative (&#147;GeSI&#148;). This supplier has also provided written materials demonstrating that (i)&nbsp;it was evaluated by the Audit Review Committee of
the EICC and the GeSI, and qualified for posting to the Conflict-Free Smelter list as a compliant gold refiner, and (ii)&nbsp;it has verified all exterior material sources as conflict-free, under the requirements of the Conflict-Free Sourcing
Initiative of the EICC and the GeSI. In addition to the written materials provided by our sole supplier, we also performed independent inquiries, such as web searches to confirm that this supplier is listed as a Conflict-Free Smelter on the
following website: <U> </U></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>http://www.conflictfreesourcing.org/conflict-free-smelter-program/smelter-refiner-lists/gold-testing/</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For our subsidiary, Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. Co., Ltd., we determined that some of the raw materials it used in manufacturing contained
gold or tin. We performed an RCOI with respect to the gold and tin and made inquiries with each of our suppliers of such raw materials. One of our suppliers provided the Declaration of Metal Conflict-Free. The others completed the EICC&#151;GeSI
Reporting Templates and provided other written information to demonstrate that all of the tin and gold used in the production of the raw materials that we purchased were sourced from gold and tin smelters that have been evaluated by the Audit Review
Committee of the EICC and the GeSI and qualified for posting to the Conflict-Free Smelter lists as a compliant refiner. Each of these smelters was listed as a Conflict-Free Smelter on the respective websites: <U> </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>http://www.conflictfreesourcing.org/conflict-free-smelter-program/smelter-refiner-lists/gold-testing/</U> or <U> </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">http://www.conflictfreesourcing.org/conflict-free-smelter-program/smelter-refiner-lists/tin-testing/</FONT></U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry Conclusion. </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Based on our evaluation of all of our purchased minerals and the RCOI performed with respect to gold and tin described above, we have no reason
to believe that any 3TG necessary for the functionality of products we manufactured in 2016 originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO., LTD. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bo-Yung</FONT> Chen</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bo-Yung</FONT> Chen</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Chief Financial Officer</TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Date: May&nbsp;5, 2017 </P>
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