DOW CHEMICAL CO /DE/

Since December 31, 2024, there have been no material changes to the Company's Risk Factors, except as noted below, which was updated in the first and second quarters of 2025:

Global Economic Considerations: The Company operates in a global, competitive environment which gives rise to operating and market risk exposure.

The Company sells its broad range of products and services in a competitive, global environment, and competes worldwide for sales on the basis of product quality, price, technology and customer service. Increased levels of competition could result in lower prices or lower sales volume, which could have a negative impact on the Company’s results of operations. Sales of the Company's products are also subject to extensive federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations; trade agreements; import and export controls; taxes; and duties and tariffs. The imposition of additional regulations, controls, taxes, duties and tariffs or changes to bilateral and regional trade agreements could result in lower sales volume, which could negatively impact the Company’s results of operations.

In early 2025, the United States made significant changes to its long-standing trade policies and announced significant new tariffs on virtually all imported goods, with the exception of certain goods that are compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade agreement which became effective in 2020. The United States subsequently announced a reduction of the new tariffs, with certain exceptions, as it negotiates trade agreements. However, the resulting average U.S. tariff rate rose to the highest level since the 1930s. In July 2025, the United States announced it will impose higher tariff rates, effective August 1, 2025, on imports from certain specified trading partners where trade negotiations have not satisfactorily progressed. In response to these actions, certain U.S. trading partners imposed or are publicly considering retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports. Shifts in tariffs, import/export restrictions, trade sanctions, sector specific trade barriers, and other governmental trade actions, whether enacted by the United States or other countries, and the associated uncertainty of long-term trade policies, could impact the Company's sales volume, sales price, and production and other costs. Changes in trade policies may also cause disruptions to material sourcing and availability, global supply chains and logistics and access to end markets. Additionally, changes in U.S. trade policy may create shifts in global market dynamics, disrupt the long-term planning process for governments and private enterprises and result in continued global financial market volatility. The impact of these changes in trade policies and the resulting trade and market uncertainty could have a negative impact on the Company’s results of operations.

Economic conditions around the world, and in certain industries and geographic regions in which the Company does business, also impact sales price and volume and the efficacy of the Company's supply chain. For example, long-term market uncertainty, an economic downturn driven by trade policies and inflationary pressures, and higher input costs have reduced demand for the Company's products, resulting in decreased sales price and volume in recent years which have yet to recover. Adverse economic conditions have also caused supply chain constraints. These factors have had a negative impact on the Company's results of operations. Additionally, political tensions; war, including the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine with the related sanctions and export restrictions; terrorism; epidemics; pandemics; or political instability in the geographic regions or industries in which the Company sells its products could further reduce demand for the Company's products and result in decreased sales price and volume or supply chain disruptions, which could have a negative impact on the Company’s results of operations.

The United States, Canada, the European Union and other countries imposed economic sanctions on Russia in response to its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Dow suspended purchases of feedstocks and energy from Russia and stopped all investments in Russia. Additionally, Dow reduced its product offerings and is currently supplying Russia with only limited non-sanctioned goods. These actions have not had and are not expected to have a material impact on the Company's financial condition or results of operations. However, the fluidity and continuation of the conflict may result in additional economic sanctions and other impacts which could have a negative impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. These include decreased sales; supply chain and logistics disruptions; volatility in foreign exchange rates and interest rates; inflationary pressures on and availability of raw materials and energy, most notably in Europe; and heightened cybersecurity threats. Further, the intensity and duration of conflicts in the Middle East and potential expansion of hostilities in the region are difficult to predict and could disrupt the Company's supply chain operations, which could have a negative impact on the Company's results of operations.

In addition, volatility and disruption of financial markets could limit the ability of Dow's customers and suppliers to obtain adequate financing to maintain operations, which could result in a decrease in sales volume and have a negative impact on the Company’s results of operations. The Company’s global business operations also give rise to market risk exposure related to changes in inflation, foreign currency exchange rates, including the impact of foreign currency exchange rates resulting from highly inflationary economies such as Argentina, interest rates, commodity prices and other market factors such as equity prices. To manage such risks, the Company enters into hedging and other investment transactions, where deemed appropriate, pursuant to established guidelines and policies. If the Company fails to effectively manage such risks, it could have a negative impact on its results of operations.