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FILED AS OF DATE:		20230530
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230530

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Clearfield, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000796505
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH APPARATUS [3661]
		IRS NUMBER:				411347235
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-16106
		FILM NUMBER:		23974440

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7050 WINNETKA AVE. N.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 100
		CITY:			BROOKLYN PARK
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55428
		BUSINESS PHONE:		763-476-6866

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7050 WINNETKA AVE. N.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 100
		CITY:			BROOKLYN PARK
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55428

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	APA Enterprises, Inc.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20041116

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	APA OPTICS INC /MN/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><B>SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></FONT><B><BR>
Washington, D.C. 20549</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><B>FORM SD</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><B>Specialized Disclosure
Report</B></FONT></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Minnesota</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>000-16106</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Brooklyn Park, Minnesota</B></P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>55428</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Daniel Herzog </B><FONT STYLE="background-color: white">(763) 476-6866</FONT></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">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>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 95%; text-align: left">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022.</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: left">Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13q-1) for the fiscal year ended ________________.</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 1 &ndash; Conflict Minerals Disclosure</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 1in"><B>Item 1.01</B></TD><TD><B>Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="background-color: white">This Form
SD of Clearfield, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) is filed for the reporting period from January&nbsp;1, 2022 to December&nbsp;31, 2022
pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">A copy of the Company&rsquo;s Conflict Minerals
Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD and is publicly available on the Company&rsquo;s website at <U>www.seeclearfield.com/conflict-minerals.html</U>.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Any reference in this Form SD to the Company&rsquo;s
corporate website, and the contents thereof, is provided for convenience only. Such website and the contents thereof are not incorporated
by reference into this Form SD nor deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">As specified in Section 3, Item 3.01 of this Form SD, the Company is
hereby filing its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this report.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 2 - Resource Extraction Issuer Disclosure</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Not applicable.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 3 - Exhibits</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 82%; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Description</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD><A HREF="exh_101.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">1.01</FONT></A></TD>
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    <TD><A HREF="exh_101.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Conflict Minerals Report of Clearfield, Inc. as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form SD.</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SIGNATURES</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">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>

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    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">CLEARFIELD, INC.</P>
    <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">May 30, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">By: Daniel Herzog, Chief Financial Officer</FONT></TD>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Date</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>CLEARFIELD, INC.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Conflict Minerals Report</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>For the reporting period from January 1, 2022
to December 31, 2022</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">This Conflict Minerals Report of Clearfield, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;)
has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD (the &ldquo;Rule&rdquo;) promulgated under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, for the reporting period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">The Rule requires SEC registrants whose products
contain tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold (collectively, &ldquo;Conflict Minerals&rdquo;) that are necessary to the functionality or production
of those products to disclose annually whether any of the Conflict Minerals in such products originated in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo or one of its adjoining countries (collectively, the &ldquo;Covered Countries&rdquo;). If the registrant knows that the Conflict
Minerals necessary to its products originated in the Covered Countries, or has reason to believe the Conflict Minerals may have originated
in the Covered Countries and did not or may not have come from scrap or recycled sources, the registrant must exercise due diligence on
the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals and prepare and file a report that includes a description of those due diligence
measures.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;<B>Clearfield&rsquo;s Products</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">In accordance with the Rule, the Company reviewed
its products and determined that Conflict Minerals may be necessary to the functionality or production of the following products the Company
manufactured or contracted to manufacture in the reporting period of January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022: (1) cable assemblies made with
metal compounds that may contain tin and gold; and (2) cabinets and panels comprised of sheet metal that may contain tin. These cable
assemblies, cabinets and panels are referred to in this report as &ldquo;Covered Products.&rdquo; The Company&rsquo;s fiber connectivity
products contain a wide variety of materials that do not contain Conflict Minerals.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>Description of Reasonable Country of Origin
Inquiry</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">In accordance with the Rule, the Company undertook
a reasonable country of origin inquiry (the &ldquo;2022 RCOI&rdquo;) to determine whether the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality
or production of the Covered Products were sourced from the Covered Countries or are from recycled or scrap sources.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">The Company&rsquo;s 2022 RCOI was based upon the
due diligence framework in the <I>OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk
Areas: Third Edition</I>, and the related supplements on Conflict Minerals.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The 2022 RCOI included the following steps:</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The Company first identified all its active first-tier
suppliers that may supply products to the Company (components, subassemblies, and materials) containing Conflict Minerals.&nbsp;&nbsp;For
this purpose, the Company identified those first-tier suppliers that offered products that may contain Conflict Minerals for sale generally,
whether or not the Company actually purchased those products in 2022.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The Company next conducted a survey of these
suppliers using the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (&ldquo;CMRT&rdquo;) (version 6.22) developed by the <FONT STYLE="color: #333333; background-color: #FEFEFE">Responsible
Minerals Initiative (&ldquo;RMI&rdquo;).</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">From responsive suppliers that indicated the
products they supply to the Company contain Conflict Minerals that originated in the Covered Countries, the Company independently compared
the list of smelters and refiners collected from such suppliers to the lists of smelters and refiners maintained by the RMI to determine
the RMI Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (&ldquo;RMAP&rdquo;) assessment status of such smelters and refiners.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">For non-responsive suppliers, the Company reviewed
publicly available information and information generated in the course of the supply relationship to determine if there exists any indication
that the products such suppliers provided to the Company contain Conflict Minerals that originated or may have originated in the Covered
Countries.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>Results of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">As to the suppliers that submitted CMRTs that
were complete and responsive: (A) 42 suppliers constituting 64.5% of the dollar volume of all purchases of products that may contain Conflict
Minerals in 2022 indicated that none of the products included in the Covered Products contained Conflict Minerals; (B) 19 suppliers constituting
19.9% of the dollar volume of all purchases of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2022 indicated that the products included
in the Covered Products contained Conflict Minerals originating in the Covered Countries, but that the smelters and refiners of those
Conflict Minerals were deemed conformant with the RMAP assessment protocols; (C) 5 suppliers constituting 10.1% of the dollar volume of
all purchases of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2022 indicated that the products included in the Covered Products contained
Conflict Minerals, but the suppliers were unable to state the country of origin of the Conflict Minerals in the products; (D) none of
the suppliers of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2022 indicated that the products included in the Covered Products contained
Conflict Minerals originating in Covered Countries from smelters and refiners that were not conformant with the RMAP assessment protocols;
and (E) none of the suppliers of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2022 indicated the products included in the Covered Products
contained Conflict Minerals from recycled or scrap sources.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Symbol">&middot;</FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">As to the suppliers that did not submit complete
and responsive CMRTs, the Company did not identify any indicators that the Conflict Minerals in the products supplied to the Company originated
or may have originated in the Covered Countries.</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>


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