As you know, the jewelry industry in the US has been changing for better in term of social responsibility and reliable sources. Clyde Duneier Inc. is one of the companies that is complying to new regulation.
Therefore, we need all of our vendors to comply with industry standard including Gold conflict free Dodd Frank Act, Kimberly process for Diamond conflict free, Social responsibility for safety and environment (SA8000). I want you to familiar yourself with Responsibility Jewllery Council (RJC) www.responsiblejewellery.com so that you will understand what it is and encourage you to be a member.
I had sent you an email earlier asking for some preliminary question on the gold conflict free. However, at this point, I want you to conduct the Gold Conflict free audit to your own company and send us the result by October 2014. It is very important for every vendor that are doing business with Clyde Duneier have to pass the Gold Conflict free audit.
For the social audit (SA8000), I will send you separate email requesting for some information and we are not asking you to do the audit yet until we feel like it is the appropriate time.
Please check with your local audit companies that will be able to do the Gold conflict audit and give me the schedule on when it will be done and the result.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.