, President Obama signed the so-called Dodd-Frank Act. Section 1502 of this act requires publicly trading companies to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and on their websites whether they buy so-called 'conflict minerals' from the DRC or its neighbors (Seay 2012).
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