Sourcing Policy

As a member of the diamond industry and a De Beers sightholder, Diamonds International® proudly adheres to the Best Practice Principles (BPP) program of the diamond industry to ensure the diamonds we sell are conflict-free, responsibly sourced and are in compliance with United Nations resolutions.

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We take great care to source our merchandise from suppliers on which we have carried out meticulous “Know Your Supplier” due diligence and we strive to ensure that our vendors are, like us, BPP compliant.

All rough diamond imports and exports are accompanied by both a Kimberley Process certificate and a valid invoice with a Kimberly Process statement on it.​

As such, all sales are backed by the Kimberley Process, which allows Diamonds International® to provide our customers with peace of mind in their purchasing process.

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Supply Chain Policy

Diamonds International is committed to adopting, disseminating, and incorporating in supplier agreements the following policy on responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. We commit to refraining from any action which contributes to the financing of conflict, and we commit to comply with relevant United Nations sanctions resolutions or, where applicable, domestic laws implementing such resolutions. In keeping with these commitments, Diamonds International proudly adheres to the following:

  • While sourcing from, or operating in, conflict-affected and high-risk areas, we will neither tolerate nor by any means profit from, contribute to, assist with, or facilitate the commission by any party of: (a) any forms of torture, cruel, inhuman, and/or degrading treatment; (b) any forms of forced or compulsory labor, which means work or service exacted from any person under threat of penalty and for which said person has not offered himself voluntarily; (c) child labor; (d) other gross human rights violations and abuses, such as widespread sexual violence; or (e) war crimes or other serious violations of international humanitarian law, crimes against humanity, or genocide. We will promptly suspend or discontinue engagement with upstream suppliers where we identify a reasonable risk that they are sourcing from, or linked to, any party committing the abuses listed above.
  • We will not tolerate any direct or indirect support to non-state armed groups through the extraction, transport, trade, handling or export of minerals. This includes, but is not limited to, procuring minerals from, making payments to, or otherwise providing logistical assistance or equipment to, non-state armed groups or their affiliates who: (a) illegally control mine sites or otherwise control transportation routes, points where minerals are traded, and upstream actors in the supply chain; (b) illegally tax or extort money or minerals at points of access to mine sites, along transportation routes, or at points where minerals are traded; and/or (c) illegally tax or extort intermediaries, export companies, or international traders. We will promptly suspend or discontinue engagement with upstream suppliers where we identify a reasonable risk that they are sourcing from, or linked to, any party providing direct or indirect support to non-state armed groups as described in this paragraph.
  • We agree to eliminate, in accordance with paragraph 8 below, direct or indirect support to public or private security forces who illegally control mine sites, transportation routes, and upstream actors in the supply chain; illegally tax or extort money or minerals at point of access to mine sites, along transportation routes or at points where minerals are traded; or illegally tax or extort intermediaries, export companies or international traders.
  • We recognize that the role of public or private security forces at the mine sites and/or surrounding areas and/or along transportation routes should be solely to maintain the rule of law, including safeguarding human rights, providing security to mine workers, equipment, and facilities, and protecting the mine site or transportation routes from interference with legitimate extraction and trade.
  • Where we or any company in our supply chain contract with public or private security forces, we will require that such security forces engage in accordance with the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. We will support or take steps to adopt screening policies, to ensure that individuals or units of security forces that are known to have been responsible for gross human rights abuses are not hired.
  • We will support efforts, or take steps, to engage with central or local authorities, international organizations, and civil society organizations, to contribute to workable solutions on how transparency, proportionality, and accountability in payments made to public security forces for the provision of security could be improved.
  • We will support efforts, or take steps, to engage with local authorities, international organizations, and civil society organizations, to avoid or minimize the exposure of vulnerable groups, in particular, artisanal miners where minerals in the supply chain are extracted through artisanal or small-scale mining, to adverse impacts associated with the presence of security forces, public or private, on mine sites.
  • In accordance with the specific position of the company in the supply chain, we will promptly devise, adopt, and implement a risk management plan with upstream suppliers and other stakeholders, to prevent or mitigate the risk of direct or indirect support to public or private security forces, where we identify that such a risk reasonably exists. In such cases, we will suspend or discontinue engagement with upstream suppliers after failed attempts at mitigation within six months from the adoption of the risk management plan. Where we identify a reasonable risk of activities inconsistent with paragraphs 6 and 7, we will respond in the same vein.
  • We will not offer, promise, give or demand any bribes, and will resist the solicitation of bribes to conceal or disguise the origin of minerals, to misrepresent taxes, fees and royalties paid to governments for the purposes of mineral extraction, trade, handling, transport, and export.
  • We will support efforts, or take steps, to contribute to the effective elimination of money laundering where we identify a reasonable risk of money-laundering resulting from, or connected to, the extraction, trade, handling, transport or export of minerals derived from the illegal taxation or extortion of minerals at points of access to mine sites, along transportation routes, or at points where minerals are traded by upstream suppliers.
  • We will ensure that taxes, fees, and royalties related to mineral extraction, trade and export from conflict-affected and high-risk areas are paid to governments.
  • In accordance with the specific position of the company in the supply chain, we commit to engage with suppliers, central or local governmental authorities, international organizations, civil society and affected third parties, as appropriate, to improve and track performance with a view to preventing or mitigating risks of adverse impacts through measurable steps taken in reasonable timescales. We will suspend or discontinue engagement with upstream suppliers after failed attempts at mitigation.