{
  "measure": {
    "id": "ctl-cn-antismuggling-2025-strategic-minerals",
    "eventId": "evt-cn-antismuggling-campaign-2025",
    "measureType": "customs_enforcement",
    "direction": "export",
    "clause": null,
    "targetScopes": [],
    "targetJurisdictions": [],
    "targetEntities": [],
    "targetEndUsersAsStated": [],
    "targetEndUsesAsStated": [],
    "materialIds": [
      "gallium",
      "germanium",
      "antimony",
      "tungsten",
      "rare-earth-elements"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "productScopeAsStated": "镓、锗、锑、钨、中重稀土等战略矿产",
    "productCodes": [],
    "controlledItemTypes": [],
    "controlledStages": [],
    "legalBasisEventIds": [],
    "legalBasisAsStated": null,
    "modifiesMeasureIds": [],
    "modifiesExternalInstruments": [],
    "statusHistory": [
      {
        "status": "announced",
        "date": "2025-05-09",
        "sourceId": "src-mofcom-antismuggling-2025",
        "until": null,
        "note": "Deployed at an on-site meeting in Shenzhen; the notice gives no end date."
      }
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-mofcom-antismuggling-2025",
        "supports": [
          "measure_type",
          "direction",
          "materials",
          "product_scope",
          "status"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "First and second paragraphs",
        "note": null
      }
    ],
    "notes": "An enforcement campaign against false declaration, concealment and third-country transshipment (伪报瞒报、夹藏走私、\"第三国\"转口), not a new legal restriction; it enforces the existing controls. \"Medium and heavy rare earths\" fall under the grouped rare-earth-elements material."
  },
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-cn-antismuggling-campaign-2025",
    "date": "2025-05-09",
    "jurisdiction": "china",
    "titleEn": "National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office deploys special campaign against smuggling and illegal export of strategic minerals",
    "documentNumber": null
  },
  "modifiedBy": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-mofcom-antismuggling-2025",
      "title": "国家出口管制工作协调机制办公室部署开展打击战略矿产走私出口专项行动 (National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office deploys special campaign against strategic-mineral smuggling)",
      "publisher": "中华人民共和国商务部 (Ministry of Commerce, PRC)",
      "url": "http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/jgdt/art/2025/art_2f8636687d014b2c84384628b01ab410.html",
      "language": "zh",
      "datePublished": "2025-05-09",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-22",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "MOFCOM's own notice of a special enforcement campaign against smuggling and illegal export of strategic minerals, held as an on-site meeting in Shenzhen. Names gallium, germanium, antimony, tungsten and medium/heavy rare earths explicitly; names false declaration/concealment, concealed smuggling and third-country transshipment as the targeted evasion methods; and states that strengthening export controls on strategic mineral resources relates to national security and development interests."
    }
  ]
}