National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office deploys special campaign against smuggling and illegal export of strategic minerals

On 9 May 2025 the National Export Control Coordination Mechanism Office, together with MOFCOM, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the General Administration of Customs (GACC), the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the State Postal Bureau, held an on-site meeting in Shenzhen, Guangdong to deploy a special enforcement campaign against smuggling and illegal export of strategic minerals — explicitly naming gallium, germanium, antimony, tungsten and medium/heavy rare earths. The notice targets false declaration and concealment (伪报瞒报), concealed smuggling (夹藏走私) and third-country transshipment evasion ("第三国"转口), and calls for source-to-port oversight, faster investigation and publication of illegal-export cases, and strengthened cross-department, cross-region and mainland-Hong Kong-Macao customs enforcement cooperation.

The first customs-enforcement-mechanism event in the corpus, and a materially significant addition on its own terms: it shows the domestic-enforcement complement to China's export-control announcements already coded (the MOFCOM/GACC catalogue notices restrict what may be exported; this campaign polices whether the restriction is actually being evaded). Directly names five of the corpus's eleven tracked materials, giving strong comparative value against the existing export-control events on the same materials.