Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)

UNITED S TA TES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

W ashington, D.C. 20549

FORM SD

Specialized Disclosu r e Report

QUALSTAR CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

California

00 1-35810

95-3927330

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

130 West Cochran Street, Unit C, Simi Valley, California	93065
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Steven N. Bronson	(805) 583-7744
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

☒	Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2017.

Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosu r e

Items 1.01 and 1.02 Conflict Minerals Disclosu r e and Report, Exhibit

Conflict Minerals Disclosure

This Form SD of Qualstar Corporation is filed in accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Rule 13p-1”) for the reporting period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. As used in this Form SD, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires, all references to “Qualstar,” “we,” “our,” “Company” and similar references are to Qualstar Corporation and our consolidated subsidiaries.

Rule 13p-1 requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which the minerals specified in Rule 13p-1 are necessary to the production or functionality of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (“conflict minerals”). The “Covered Countries” for the purposes of Rule 13p-1 are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

We manufacture or contract to manufacture products for which conflict minerals are necessary to the production or functionality of those products. We conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding such conflict minerals, which was designed to determine whether any of the conflict minerals originated in the Covered Countries or were from recycled or scrap sources. Our reasonable country of origin inquiry is described in our Conflict Minerals Report, which is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD, and is publicly available on our website at https://www.qualstar.com/n2p-compliance-docs.php .

Section 2 - Exhibits

Item 2.01 Exhibits

Exhibit 1.01 Conflict Minerals Report for the period from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned