STANDARD DEVELOPMENT

Stakeholder Engagement

ITA engages regularly with international organisations and stakeholders across the mining, minerals, metals and responsible sourcing sector to foster efficient and cost-effective co-operation, discussion and action on important regional and global issues affecting the sector as a whole.

Our team serves as a focal point for stakeholder engagement and dedicates resources to formulate, facilitate and execute effective communication internally and externally to enhance our stakeholder engagement and collaboration with all interested parties.

In the design stage of the Tin Code, we reviewed many relevant existing standards including established industry standards (IRMA, ICMM) to learn from their experience. Since 2020, we have been benchmarking the Tin Code to current metal standards and have been able to identify opportunities to collaborate, creating wider impacts for our stakeholders and society.

We welcome feedback and suggestions on the Tin Code at any time, please get in touch via the contact form.

Consultations

Tin Code Equivalence Process – Open Consultation

ITA is inviting feedback on the draft Tin Code Equivalence Process through a 30-day technical consultation, open to all interested stakeholders until Monday 3rd August 2026 at 17:00 BST.

The Tin Code Equivalence Process sets out how ITA reviews the extent to which external assurance systems may be assessed as providing equivalent evidence against the scope, requirements, and assurance processes of the Tin Code at a system level. It also describes how the Tin Code Independent Assessor uses system-level equivalence assessments alongside company-level evidence to verify implementation and support the assignment of Tin Code performance ratings.

To provide input, please download the draft document and submit comments by email to: tincode@internationaltin.org

All feedback will be reviewed by the ITA Sustainability team and the Independent Assessor, to be considered in finalising the Equivalence Process. Submissions will be anonymised. A summary of feedback, along with the finalised Equivalence Process, will be published on the ITA website by the end of August 2026, following completion of the consultation.

Monitoring & Evaluation

The Tin Code is committed to continuously learning and improving by measuring and reporting on its progress.

ITA is in the process of developing a monitoring and evaluation framework including defining indicators to track progress towards our intended impact as set out in the Theory of Change, which outlines how our principles and actions lead to positive outcomes in tin supply chains.

See the Public Reports webpage for more information.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The global tin industry, along with other extractives industries, has the opportunity to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) by demonstrating improvements in social and environmental performance.

ITA is mapping the Tin Code’s principles and standards to the UN SDG’s to understand interlinkages and where the tin industry can support progress towards these global goals. This section will be updated with further information in due course here.