<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001171843-24-003054.txt : 20240522
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001171843-24-003054
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20240522
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240522

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Clearfield, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000796505
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH APPARATUS [3661]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		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:		24972973

	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-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20549</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>FORM SD</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Specialized Disclosure Report</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt"><B>Clearfield, Inc.</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="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-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-size: 10pt"><B>000-16106</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)</FONT></TD>
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    <P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0">(Commission</P>
    <P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0">File Number)</P></TD></TR>
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    <P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>7050 Winnetka North, Suite 100 </B></P>
    <P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><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-size: 10pt"><B>55428</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">(Zip Code)</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt"><FONT STYLE="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-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-size: 10pt; 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%">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the
reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2023.</TD></TR>
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  <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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  <TD>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-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 1 &ndash; Conflict Minerals Disclosure</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0"><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, 2023 to December&nbsp;31, 2023 pursuant to Rule 13p-1
promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">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>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">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-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Item 1.02 Exhibit</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; 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>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 2 - Resource Extraction Issuer Disclosure</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">Not applicable.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Section 3 - Exhibits</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.</P>

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    <TD><A HREF="exh_101.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">1.01</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD><A HREF="exh_101.htm"><FONT STYLE="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-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>SIGNATURES</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0pt 0">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-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">CLEARFIELD, INC.</P>
    <P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 20%">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;/s/ Daniel Herzog</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">May 22, 2024</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">By: Daniel Herzog, Chief Financial Officer</FONT></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Date</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>CLEARFIELD, INC.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Conflict Minerals Report</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>For the reporting period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; 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, 2023 to December 31, 2023.</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">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>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0"><B>Clearfield&rsquo;s Products</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">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, 2023 to December 31, 2023: (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-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">In accordance with the Rule, the Company undertook a reasonable country
of origin inquiry (the &ldquo;2023 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-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">The Company&rsquo;s 2023 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-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">The 2023 RCOI included the following steps:</P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</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">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 2023.</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">The Company next conducted a survey of these suppliers using the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template
(&ldquo;CMRT&rdquo;) (version 6.31) developed by the <FONT STYLE="background-color: #FEFEFE">Responsible Minerals Initiative (&ldquo;RMI&rdquo;).</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">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.</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">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.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0">The 2023 RCOI results are as follows:</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">As to the suppliers that submitted CMRTs that were complete and responsive: (A) 58 suppliers constituting
55.0% of the dollar volume of all purchases of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2023 indicated that none of the products
included in the Covered Products contained Conflict Minerals; (B) 23 suppliers constituting 32.0% of the dollar volume of all purchases
of products that may contain Conflict Minerals in 2023 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) 15 suppliers constituting 8.0% of the dollar volume of all purchases of products that may contain Conflict
Minerals in 2023 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 2023 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 2023 indicated the products included in the Covered Products contained Conflict Minerals from recycled
or scrap sources.</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">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.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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