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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230524

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000928876
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SEMICONDUCTORS & RELATED DEVICES [3674]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			L3
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-24790
		FILM NUMBER:		23953478

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RAMAT GAVRIEL INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 619
		CITY:			MIGDAL HAEMEK
		STATE:			L3
		ZIP:			23105
		BUSINESS PHONE:		97246506611

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RAMAT GAVRIEL INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 619
		CITY:			MIGDAL HAEMEK
		STATE:			L3
		ZIP:			23105
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      <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.25;">(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">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:</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;">&#9746;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Introduction</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (&#8220;Form SD&#8221;) of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. for the year ended December 31, 2022 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#8220;Rule&#8221;). Unless the context indicates otherwise, &#8220;Tower,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us&#8221; and
        &#8220;our&#8221; refers to Tower Semiconductor Ltd. and its consolidated subsidiaries as of December 31, 2022. The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission
        (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to &#8220;conflict minerals&#8221; as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Conflict minerals are defined by the SEC as gold as well as
        columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten. The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants for whom conflict minerals are necessary for the
        functionality or production of products manufactured by the registrant or contracted by the registrant to be manufactured (such minerals are referred to as &#8220;necessary conflict minerals&#8221;). With respect to its necessary conflict minerals, the
        registrant must conduct in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry ("RCOI") designed to determine whether any of its necessary conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (&#8220;DRC&#8221;) or an adjoining country,
        collectively defined as the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;. If, based on such RCOI , the registrant knows or has reason to believe that any of its necessary conflict minerals originated or may have originated in a Covered Country and knows or has reason to
        believe that those necessary conflict minerals may not be solely from recycled or scrap sources, the registrant must conduct due diligence on the source and chain of custody of its necessary conflict minerals in order to determine whether such
        necessary conflict minerals did or did not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. Products which do not contain, or are manufactured without the use of, necessary conflict minerals that directly or
        indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries are considered &#8220;DRC conflict free&#8221;.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We use the term &#8220;conflict free&#8221; in this Form SD in a broader sense to refer to suppliers, supply chains, smelters and refiners whose
        sources of conflict minerals did not or do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries.</div>
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      <div style="margin-right: 34pt; line-height: 1.25;">The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not
        incorporated by reference into this document.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Company Overview</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We are a pure-play independent specialty foundry dedicated to the manufacture semiconductors. Typically, pure-play foundries do not
        offer products of their own, but focus on producing integrated circuits, or ICs, based on the design specifications of their customers. We manufacture ICs for our customers primarily based on third party designs. We currently offer the process
        manufacture of ICs with geometries of 0.35, 0.50, 0.55, 0.60, 0.80-micron and above on 150-mm wafers, 0.35, 0.18. 0.16, 0.13 and 0.11-micron on 200-mm wafers and 65 nanometer and 45 nanometer on 300-mm wafers. We also provide design support and
        complementary technical services. ICs manufactured by us are incorporated into a wide range of products in diverse markets, including consumer electronics, personal computers, communications, automotive, industrial and medical device products.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We currently operate seven manufacturing facilities ("fabs") in several geographic regions: two fabs (for 150mm and 200mm wafers)
        located in Migdal Haemek, Israel, one fab (for 200mm wafers) located in Newport Beach, California, one fab (for 200mm wafers) located in San Antonio, Texas, and two
        additional fabs (for 200mm and 300mm wafers) located in the Hokuriku region of Japan (we operated a third manufacturing facility in Japan which ceased operations in July
          2022). We offer state-of-the-art production lines for core bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and specialized technologies such as power
        management, CMOS Image Sensors (CIS), silicon-germanium bipolar CMOS (SiGe) and switch silicon-on-insulator (SOI) for radio frequency (RF) applications, high performance analog and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Overview of Tower&#8217;s Conflict Minerals Program</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As a semiconductor manufacturer, we are knowledgeable of the materials needed for our production processes and products that we
        manufacture. To comply with the Rule, we reviewed the products we manufactured in 2022 to determine whether conflict minerals were necessary for their
        functionality or production. Based on this review, we determined that tungsten and/or tantalum were used in the manufacturing processes of most of our products and are contained in certain of our products.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Supply Chain Description</div>
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      </div>
      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">All of our integrated circuits are manufactured in our own fabs. Tower does not purchase any tungsten or tantalum directly from
        smelters, refiners or mines, and is many steps removed in the supply chain from the mining of these necessary conflict minerals. Rather, these necessary conflict minerals are obtained via our direct suppliers, who obtain them from sources
        worldwide. As a result, we rely on our direct suppliers to assist with our RCOI and due diligence efforts, including the identification of smelters and refiners for any necessary conflict minerals contained in the materials which our direct
        suppliers supply to us.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">SECTION 1 &#8211; CONFLICT MINERALS DISCLOSURE</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Item 1.01. Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Description of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry ("RCOI") Efforts</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As indicated, Tower concluded that during 2022 it
        had manufactured products in which tungsten and/or tantalum were necessary for their functionality or production. As a result, we conducted in good faith an RCOI that was designed to reasonably determine whether any of our necessary conflict
        minerals originated in the Covered Countries or were from recycled or scrap sources.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As part of the RCOI, we conducted a supply chain survey of our direct suppliers of tungsten and tantalum (and of any material used in
        our manufacturing processes that contains tungsten or tantalum) to obtain country of origin information using the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the "Template&#8221; or &#8220;CMRT), which is a standardized survey tool published by the Responsible
        Minerals Initiative (&#8220;RMI&#8221;), formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (&#8220;CFSI&#8221;). RMI operates the Responsible Mineral Assurance Process (&#8220;RMAP&#8221;, previously the Conflict Free Smelter Program), a program that identifies smelters and
        refiners that produce responsibly sourced materials by using third-party auditors to independently verify that these smelters and refiners have systems in place to responsibly source minerals in conformance with RMAP standards. The Template, which
        requests direct suppliers to identify the smelters, refiners and countries of origin of the necessary conflict minerals they supply to Tower, was developed to facilitate disclosure and communication of information regarding smelters and refiners
        that provide material in a company&#8217;s supply chain. The Template includes among others questions regarding a company&#8217;s conflict-free policy, engagement with its direct suppliers, and a listing of the smelters the company and its suppliers use. In
        addition, the Template contains questions about the origin of conflict minerals included in their products, as well as supplier due diligence. Written instructions regarding use of the questionnaire are available on RMI&#8217;s website at <u>http://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/media/docs/CMRT%206.0%20Guide_final.pdf</u>.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We received responses from all of our direct suppliers of
          tungsten and tantalum (and from all of our direct suppliers of any material used in our manufacturing processes that contain tungsten or tantalum). We then confirmed whether or not each smelter or refiner they identified as providing conflict minerals was found to be conformant with RMAP standards.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Conclusion Based on Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As a result of our survey regarding 2022
        activity, one out of our six direct suppliers of tungsten or any material used
        in our manufacturing processes that contain tungsten indicated that they did not source from the Covered Countries. In addition, each of the six suppliers confirmed that all of the smelters or refiners they identified as suppliers of tungsten had been designated as RMAP conformant.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Regarding tantalum, all three direct suppliers of
        tantalum or any material used in our manufacturing processes that contain tantalum indicated that their supply chain includes smelters or refiners sourcing
        tantalum from the Covered Countries. In addition, all three suppliers confirmed that all of the smelters and refiners they identified as suppliers of tantalum had
        been designated as RMAP conformant.</div>
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      </div>
      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Because we know or have reason to believe that a certain amount of the tungsten and tantalum used in the process of manufacturing
        certain of our products and/or contained in certain of our products originated or may have originated in a Covered Country, we conducted due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the tungsten and tantalum used in the production of, and/or
        contained in, our products. Our due diligence was designed to conform to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development&#8217;s &#8220;Due Diligence Guidance for
        Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas ", Third Edition (April 2016).</div>
      <div style="line-height: 1.25;"><br style="line-height: 1.25;">
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The due diligence measures that we performed are discussed further in the conflict minerals report filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Conflict Minerals Disclosure</div>
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      </div>
      <div style="margin-right: 60pt; line-height: 1.25;">This Form SD and the conflict minerals report, filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto, are publicly available on our website at
        <u>https://ir.towersemi.com/financial-information/sec-filings</u>;</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Item 1.02. Exhibit.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;">The Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 of Form SD is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">SECTION 2 &#8211; RESOURCE EXTRACTION ISSUER DISCLOSURE</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Item 2.01. Resource Extraction Issuer Disclosure and Report.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Not applicable.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Item 3.01. Exhibits.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;"><a href="exhibit_1-01.htm"><u>Exhibit 1.01 &#8211; conflict minerals report for the reporting period January 1, </u><u>2022</u><u> to December 31, </u><u>2022</u><u> as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.</u></a></div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Tower Semiconductor Ltd.</div>
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                <div>By: <u>/s/ Nati Somekh</u> <br>
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                <div>May 24, 2023</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Tower Semiconductor Ltd.</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Conflict Minerals Report</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">For the Year Ended December 31, 2022</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">This conflict minerals report for the year ended December 31, 2022 is presented to comply with Section 13(p) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 13p-1 (the "Rule") and Form SD thereunder.
      The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Rule
      imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants for whom conflict minerals are necessary for the functionality or production of products manufactured by the registrant or contracted by the registrant to be manufactured (such minerals are
      referred to as &#8220;necessary conflict minerals&#8221;). "Conflict minerals" are defined as gold as well as columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum and tungsten (collectively referred to
      as &#8220;3TG Minerals&#8221;).</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">With respect to its necessary conflict minerals, the registrant must conduct in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry designed to determine whether any of its necessary conflict minerals
      originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (&#8220;DRC&#8221;) or an adjoining country, collectively defined as the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;. If, based on such inquiry, the registrant knows or has reason to believe that any of its necessary conflict minerals
      originated or may have originated in a Covered Country and knows or has reason to believe that those necessary conflict minerals may not be solely from recycled or scrap sources, the registrant must conduct due diligence on the source and chain of
      custody of its necessary conflict minerals in order to determine whether such necessary conflict minerals directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries, and it must submit a conflict minerals report as an exhibit to
      its Form SD that includes a description of those due diligence measures. In accordance with the instructions and related guidance to Form SD, this conflict minerals report has not been audited by an independent private sector auditor.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The content of any website referred to in this conflict minerals report is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference into this document.</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Design and Description of Conflict Minerals Diligence Program</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The due diligence efforts by Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (unless the context indicates otherwise, &#8220;Tower ,&#8221; &#8220;Company ,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;our&#8221; refers to Tower Semiconductor Ltd. and its consolidated
      subsidiaries for 2022) have been designed to conform with the framework provided by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected And
      High-Risk Areas (Third Edition, April 2016) (the &#8220;OECD Guidance&#8221;).</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Consistent with the OECD Guidance, our due diligence in respect of 2022 consisted of a five-step process described below:</div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">Establish Strong Company Management Systems</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Tower is dedicated to corporate social responsibility and has adopted several management systems to address the issue of conflict minerals used in the production of, and/or contained in, its products, including:</div>
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            <div>a Company code of ethics requiring all employees, officers and directors to comply with all of the laws, rules and regulations of the U.S., Israel and other countries, as applicable (available at: <u>https://towersemi.com/about/corporate-social-responsibility-esg/social/</u>;</div>
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            <div>partnership since 2014 in the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), which provides assessment tools including a self-assessment questionnaire designed to help members identify social, environmental and ethical risks in their supply chains
              and take action to put in place systems to further improve their social contribution,</div>
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            <div>a code of ethics for suppliers requiring suppliers to conduct their business in an ethical manner and act with integrity, including by ensuring that products supplied to Tower do not contain metals derived from minerals or their
              derivatives originating from conflict regions that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups,</div>
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            <div>a team of Company employees, consisting of senior operations, engineering, QA, regulatory compliance and legal personnel, that oversees implementation of the Company's conflict minerals compliance strategy. In addition, senior management
              of the Company, including the Senior Vice President Excellence and Quality and Reliability, VP of Procurement and the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, are briefed on a regular basis by the Company&#8217;s
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 10pt; line-height: 1.25;">The code of ethics for suppliers and the conflict minerals policy are each available at: <u>https://towersemi.com/about/corporate-social-responsibility-esg/social-supply-chain/</u>.
      Suppliers are required as part of the terms and conditions of their supply with the Company to comply with each such policy.</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25;">The Company&#8217;s conflict minerals policy states, in part, that the Company:</div>
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            <div>Avoids the use of conflict minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries;</div>
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            <div>Expects its suppliers to have in place policies and due diligence procedures that will ensure that products and components that they supply containing conflict minerals, including conflict minerals from Covered Countries, are in fact
              "conflict-free", meaning that they do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in Covered Countries;</div>
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            <div>Requires the Company's direct suppliers to provide it with annual declarations regarding their use of conflict minerals (utilizing a format described below);</div>
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            <div>Reserves the right to take appropriate action to enforce its conflict minerals policy, including discontinuing purchases from suppliers that fail to comply; and</div>
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            <div>Is committed to responsible sourcing of conflict minerals throughout its supply chain and to continued compliance with applicable SEC rules and regulations in this area.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The conflict minerals policy also directs any questions about such policy to the Company's Corporate Compliance Officer.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">In addition to the measures described above and in order to provide transparency within our supply chain, we have adopted the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the "Template&#8221; or &#8220;CMRT&#8221;) to
      directly survey our suppliers. The CMRT is a standardized survey tool published by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (&#8220;RMI&#8221;), formerly known as the Conflict-free Sourcing Initiative (&#8220;CFSI&#8221;). RMI operates the Responsible Mineral Assurance Process
      (&#8220;RMAP&#8221;, previously the Conflict Free Smelter Program), a program that identifies smelters and refiners that produce responsibly sourced materials by using third-party auditors to independently verify that these smelters and refiners have systems in
      place to responsibly source minerals in conformance with RMAP standards.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We also include provisions in our terms and conditions attached to each purchase order we issue that require our suppliers of 3TG Minerals to (i) submit a completed CMRT in January of each year,
      which covers the previous calendar year, and (ii) supply only conflict-free materials to Tower. Suppliers are encouraged to use only refiners and smelters who are RMAP conformant, and, after receiving completed CMRTs from suppliers, we confirm that
      such refiners and smelters are in fact designated as RMAP conformant.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">All responses from suppliers are recorded and stored in an electronic database and are maintained for a minimum of five years.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We identified two primary risks regarding our suppliers, as follows: (i) not receiving timely or accurate information, and (ii) difficulty in replacing a supplier should we determine that such
      supplier obtained or appears to have obtained conflict minerals from sources that support armed conflict in the Covered Countries.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Because we do not purchase tungsten and tantalum directly from smelters, refiners or mines and are many steps removed in the supply chain from mining of such tungsten and tantalum, we focus our
      efforts on surveying our direct suppliers who were required to survey their own suppliers (i.e., our upstream suppliers) in order to receive the required information. As indicated above, we use the Template to conduct such a survey of each of our
      direct suppliers in order to identify and receive information regarding smelters and refiners of tungsten and tantalum in our supply chain.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Following an annual distribution of the Template to our direct suppliers of tungsten and/or tantalum or any material used in our manufacturing processes that contains tungsten and/or tantalum, we
      ensure to receive responses with completed CMRT from all of our suppliers. Templates submitted by such direct suppliers are reviewed for reasonableness and for missing or incomplete data, and we contact such direct suppliers as necessary to obtain
      clarifications or additional information where needed. Thereafter, we compare the smelters or refiners identified by those suppliers in their submitted Templates with the list of facilities designated by RMI as RMAP conformant to ensure compliance.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As disclosed on our website and in our code of ethics for suppliers, our ethics helpline is available for suppliers to report any violations of the law or violations of our codes of ethics.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Per the Company&#8217;s conflict minerals policy, we expect suppliers to have in place due diligence policies and procedures that ensure that materials that it supplies to Tower containing 3TG Minerals are
      in fact "conflict-free", meaning that they do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. If at any time the Company is not satisfied with a supplier's Template responses or believes that adequate policies and
      procedures are not in place, it reserves the right to take appropriate action to enforce its conflict minerals policy, including discontinuing purchases from such suppliers.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">In addition, conflict minerals findings are reported regularly to Tower&#8217;s Corporate Compliance Officer who is responsible for collecting and reviewing all relevant conflict minerals data and
      formulating a proposed corporate strategy to address any risks identified by such review.</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25;">By taking these steps, we manage the risks associated with our supply chain by:</div>
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            <div>engaging with suppliers to obtain current, accurate and complete information about the suppliers&#8217; supply chains; and</div>
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            <div>encouraging suppliers to implement responsible sourcing and work with smelters and refiners which have obtained a &#8220;conflict-free&#8221; designation from a third-party auditor such as under RMAP.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Finally, we have established an escalation process to contact suppliers upon obtaining any information that indicates that such suppliers may be sourcing necessary conflict minerals from any of the
      Covered Countries without a "conflict free" designation. Steps considered by the Company in such instances may include requiring a contracted supplier to find an alternative source for the necessary 3TG Minerals for use in products or components
      supplied to the Company, or, if appropriate, in light of all relevant circumstances, seeking an alternate source of supply and suspending or terminating the Company&#8217;s contractual relationship with such supplier.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The Template provided to our suppliers requests information on the smelters and refiners used to provide the tungsten and tantalum in our products. We do not typically have a direct relationship with
      smelters and refiners of such minerals and are unable to perform or direct audits of these entities within our supply chain. Instead, we compare information regarding refiners and smelters provided by our suppliers in their Template with lists of
      refiners and smelters designated by RMI as RMAP conformant in order to ensure compliance.</div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">Report Annually on Supply Chain Due Diligence</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">This conflict minerals report is available on our website at https://ir.towersemi.com/financial-information/sec-filings and has also been filed with the SEC.</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Results of our Due Diligence Measures</div>
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    </div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">We believe that following the OECD Guidance and usage of the Template RMAP represents reasonable and reliable ways to gather information on the source of conflict minerals in our products.</div>
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    <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Inherent Limitations on Due Diligence Measures</div>
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    </div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Our due diligence measures can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance regarding the source and chain of custody of the necessary conflict minerals in our products. Our due diligence
      processes are based on the data received from our direct suppliers of tungsten and/or tantalum or any material used in our manufacturing processes that contains tungsten and/or tantalum, which in turn is based on information received by those
      suppliers seeking similar data within their supply chains to identify the original sources of the necessary conflict minerals. We also rely, to a large extent, on information collected through the RMAP and designations made by RMI as part of RMAP,
      which may not yield accurate and complete information or make accurate designations in all cases.</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Supplier Chain Survey Responses</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">As a result of our survey regarding 2022 activity, the three direct suppliers of tantalum and/or any material used in our manufacturing processes that contains tantalum indicated that their supply
        chain includes smelters or refiners sourcing from the Covered Countries, as did five of our six direct suppliers of tungsten and/or any material used in our manufacturing processes that contains tungsten. However, each of the smelters and refiners
        identified by such suppliers as sourcing tantalum or tungsten from Covered Countries has been designated as RMAP conformant.</div>
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      </div>
      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">The table below lists the facilities identified by our direct suppliers which, to the extent known, may have processed the tantalum and/or tungsten used in our products or in our manufacturing
        processes in 2022. All of the below listed facilities have been designated as RMAP conformant.</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">D Block Metals, LLC</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">F&amp;X Electro-Materials Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">FIR Metals &amp; Resource Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Global Advanced Metals Aizu</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JAPAN</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Global Advanced Metals Boyertown</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Materion Newton Inc.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">INDIA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JAPAN</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">NPM Silmet AS</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Estonia</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">TANIOBIS Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">THAILAND</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">TANIOBIS GmbH</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">GERMANY</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JAPAN</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH &amp; Co. KG</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">GERMANY</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Telex Metals</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">KAZAKHSTAN</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">XIMEI RESOURCES (GUANGDONG) LIMITED</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Yanling Jincheng Tantalum &amp; Niobium Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">Tungsten:</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">A.L.M.T. Corp.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JAPAN</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Ganzhou Seadragon W &amp; Mo Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Global Tungsten &amp; Powders Corp.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">GERMANY</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Hunan Jintai New Material Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Hunan Shizhuyuan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. Chenzhou Tungsten Products Branch</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">JAPAN</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical &amp; Chemical Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Kennametal Huntsville</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Taiwan, Province Of China</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Masan High-Tech Materials</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">VIET NAM</div>
            </td>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Niagara Refining LLC</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</div>
            </td>
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            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH &amp; Co. KG</div>
            </td>
            <td nowrap="nowrap" style="width: 50%; vertical-align: bottom;">
              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">GERMANY</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Austria</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten &amp; Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd.</div>
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              <div style="line-height: 1.25;">CHINA</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">In addition, our suppliers provided us with information regarding the countries of origin of the tantalum and tungsten supplied by certain of the above smelters and refiners, a list of which is
        provided below. Our suppliers did not provide specific country of origin information for certain smelters and refiners. Due to the incompleteness of this information, Tower is unable at this time to determine and describe in this report a complete
        list of specific countries of origin of such conflict minerals.</div>
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                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Angola-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Argentina-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Australia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Austria-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Belgium-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Bolivia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Brazil-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Burundi-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Cambodia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Canada-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Central African Republic-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Chile-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">China-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Colombia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Democratic Republic of Congo-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Djibouti-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Ecuador-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Egypt-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Estonia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Erithrea</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Ethiopia-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">France-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Georgia</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Germany-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Ghana-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Guinea-</div>
                  <div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.25;">Guyana-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">India-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Indonesia-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ireland-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Israel-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Italy-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Japan-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Katanga-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kazakhstan-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Korea-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lichtenstein</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Luxembourg-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Madagascar-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mexico-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mongolia-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mozambique-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Myanmar-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Namibia-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Netherlands-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Nigeria-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Panama</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Papua New Guinea-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Peru-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Philippines-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Portugal-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Russian Federation-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rwanda-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Saudi Arabia</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sierra Leone-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Singapore-</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Slovenia-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">South Africa-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">South Sudan-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spain-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sudan-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Suriname-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Switzerland-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Taiwan-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tanzania-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Thailand-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Turkey</div>
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                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">United Kingdom-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">United States-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Vietnam-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Zambia-</div>
                  <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Zimbabwe-</div>
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      <div style="line-height: 1.25; font-weight: bold;">Future Due Diligence Measures</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">For the calendar year ending December 31, 2022, we have engaged in the due diligence process described above. We will also continue to attempt to validate supplier responses using information
        collected through independent conflict-free smelter validation programs, such as that of RMAP, and will take measures as needed to address any potential risks that are identified through these due diligence efforts.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25;">This Form SD and conflict minerals report includes certain &#8220;forward-looking&#8221; statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The use of the words &#8220;projects,&#8221;
        &#8220;expects,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;plans&#8221; or &#8220;intends,&#8221; or words of similar import, identifies a statement as &#8220;forward-looking&#8221;. There can be no assurance, however, that actual results will not differ materially from our expectations or projections.</div>
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