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MOFCOM Announcement No. 61 (2025)

Extraterritorial licensing · Item 1(2)

MOFCOM Announcement No. 61 of 2025: decision to implement export controls on relevant rare-earth items located outside China

Suspendeduntil 10 Nov 2026Re-export

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What it covers

In the instrument's own words.

使用原产于中国的稀土开采、冶炼分离、金属冶炼、磁材制造、稀土二次资源回收利用相关技术在境外生产的本公告附件1所列物项

Original-language wording, kept untranslated because it defines legal scope; the notes and the event summary give the English sense.

Record

Targeting
All jurisdictions
Materials
Rare earth elements (grouped)Tracked materials only
Items and stages
GoodsCovered items belong to: mining, separation, refining, component manufacturing, recyclingWhere the items belong, not a claim that the clause restricts that stage.
Legal basis
《中华人民共和国出口管制法》《中华人民共和国两用物项出口管制条例》Export Control Law of the People's Republic of ChinaRegulations of the People's Republic of China on Export Control of Dual-Use Items

Status

Oldest first; the last entry is current. A stated end date is shown, never extended by inference.

  1. Scheduleduntil 1 Dec 2025

    本公告"一（一）"和"一（二）"部分自2025年12月1日起实施。

    中华人民共和国商务部 (Ministry of Commerce, PRC)

  2. Suspendeduntil 10 Nov 2026current

    经批准，自即日起至2026年11月10日，…商务部公告2025年第61号…暂停实施。

    Ministry of Commerce (China)

Linked clauses

Clauses this one suspends or modifies, and clauses that act on it.

Notes

Annex 1 items made abroad with Chinese rare-earth mining, separation, smelting, magnet-making or recycling technology. Suspended before its scheduled start. Annex 1 (物项列表, a .wps file) was not machine-read, so the items it lists are not transcribed; the announcement's title and text establish that they are rare-earth items.

Evidence

Which source supports which field, how directly, and where.

  1. 商务部公告2025第61号 公布对境外相关稀土物项实施出口管制的决定

    中华人民共和国商务部 (Ministry of Commerce, PRC)

    Fields supported
    Measure type · Direction · Clause · Targets · Materials · Product scope · Legal basis · Status
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Items 1(2) and 8
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  2. MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 70 of 2025 (suspension of Announcements Nos. 55, 56, 57, 58, 61 and 62 of 2025)

    Ministry of Commerce (China)

    Fields supported
    Status
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Operative sentence
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  3. 商务部公告2025第61号 公布对境外相关稀土物项实施出口管制的决定

    中华人民共和国商务部 (Ministry of Commerce, PRC)

    Fields supported
    Item types and stages
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Items 1(2) and 8
    Qualification
    The clause names the technologies the covered foreign-made items are produced with: 开采 (mining), 冶炼分离 (smelting and separation), 金属冶炼 (metal smelting, coded as refining), 磁材制造 (magnet manufacturing) and 稀土二次资源回收利用 (secondary-resource recovery).
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