Colfax

According to its Annual Report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2018: "In the twelve months ended December 31, 2018, certain Colfax non-U.S. subsidiaries conducted business involving Iran authorized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) under General License H and Sec. 560.537 of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctioned Regulations (“ITSR”). General License H authorized U.S.-owned or -controlled foreign entities to engage in certain business involving Iran and Sec. 560.537 authorized the wind down of such business on or before November 4, 2018.

In October 2018, a non-U.S. Howden subsidiary in the Czech Republic sold a control system valued at $57,083 for end use in the Iranian petrochemical sector pursuant to Sec. 560.537. The sale did not generate a profit. The information provided pursuant to Section 13(r) of the Exchange Act in Item 5 of Part II of the Company’s Quarterly Reports on 10-Q for the quarter ended June 29, 2018 is also hereby incorporated by reference. In compliance with the revocation of General License H and the expiration of Sec. 560.537, we do not intend to continue these activities."

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According to its Annual Report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2017: "In the Company’s quarterly report for the period ended June 30, 2017, we reported pursuant to Section 13(r)(1)(A) of the Exchange Act that one of our non-U.S. ESAB subsidiaries sold a total of $1,236,800 of welding products for end use in the Iranian petrochemical sector pursuant to General License H, which authorizes such transactions.  Colfax subsequently learned that our ESAB subsidiary inadvertently mischaracterized the end market industry sector for a portion of these sales.  After correction, the aggregate value of sales relating to the Iranian petrochemical sector for the relevant period was $327,822 and did not require disclosure in the Quarterly Report.  Accordingly, the Company did not make further disclosure of these sales in its quarterly report for the period ended September 29, 2017 or in this Annual Report."

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According to its Annual Report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2012: "During the fiscal year, a few of our independently operated foreign subsidiaries which we acquired in 2012 made the final shipments necessary to wind down four sales agreements involving parties identified in section 560.304 of title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These foreign subsidiaries entered into the original sales agreements in the years before we acquired them. The shipments were made as part of our foreign subsidiaries’ voluntary withdrawal from the Iranian market, which was implemented as part of the foreign subsidiaries’ integration into our comprehensive international trade compliance program, which prohibits sales to Iran.

The transactions were conducted in accordance with economic sanctions statutes and regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls, other U.S. statutes restricting trade with Iran, and with applicable local laws in Europe. As part of our effort to ensure our compliance with U.S. sanctions, the Company consulted with U.S. government personnel who administer certain Iranian sanctions prior to some of the shipments. The transactions did not involve U.S.-origin content and U.S. persons did not control, approve, facilitate or otherwise participate in the transactions. In addition, our foreign subsidiaries requested and obtained the required authorizations under local export control laws in Europe to complete the transactions. The gross revenue for each shipment was $653,718, $1,499,400, $2,527,797, and $5,524,525, with profit margins of 23.6% and 20.4% on the first two shipments and losses on the remaining two shipments. Colfax is committed to continuing to comply fully with all U.S. economic sanctions. As part of that commitment, all of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries have voluntarily withdrawn from selling into the Iranian market. As a result, neither Colfax nor any of its foreign subsidiaries intend to conduct any future shipments to Iran."