PowerShares DB Base Metals Fund (the Fund) is a separate series of PowerShares DB Multi-Sector Commodity Trust (the Trust), a Delaware statutory trust organized in seven separate series, and its subsidiary, DB Base Metals Master Fund (the Master Fund), a separate series of DB Multi-Sector Commodity Master Trust (the Master Trust), a Delaware statutory trust organized in seven separate series, which were formed on August 3, 2006. DB Commodity Services LLC (DBCS), funded both the Fund and the Master Fund. The Fund offers common units of beneficial interest only to certain eligible financial institutions in one or more blocks of 200,000 Shares, called a Basket.