MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 23 (2023)
MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 23 of 2023 on export controls on gallium- and germanium-related items
商务部 海关总署公告2023年第23号 关于对镓、锗相关物项实施出口管制的公告
English title: project / third-party translation
Summary
Effective 1 August 2023, eight gallium-related and six germanium-related items require a dual-use export license from provincial MOFCOM (not a ban). First major Chinese critical-material control of this cycle, days after expanded US/allied semiconductor controls.
Analytical significance
Established the licensing template (end-use/end-user disclosure, roughly 60-day review) reused in later controls; exports to the US fell to near zero.
Instruments in this event
The separate financial commitments and control clauses this announcement contains, each with its own status history and evidence.
Framing anchors
Official framing, classified only from quoted passages.
为维护国家安全和利益EN to safeguard national security and interests
Justification clause of Announcement No. 23 (2023), verified verbatim against the MOFCOM primary. Re-anchored 2026-08-10: the claim previously cited a state-media English report that does not carry the Chinese text, and the wording coded at that time was a near-paraphrase that does not appear in the announcement. The announcement carries no non-proliferation clause, so only national security is coded — a real, narrower framing than the rare-earth and tungsten measures, and identical to the graphite announcement.
Affected materials
Related events
Events touching the same materials.
Sources (3)
MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 23 of 2023 (gallium and germanium)
Primary sourceMinistry of Commerce (China)
Primary MOFCOM/GACC announcement (No. 23 of 2023) implementing export controls on gallium- and germanium-related items; effective 1 August 2023 (本公告自2023年8月1日起正式实施). Inspected directly for the verbatim Chinese justification clause. Like the graphite announcement and unlike the rare-earth and tungsten measures, the text carries no non-proliferation clause.
https://aqygzj.mofcom.gov.cn/qdml/art/2023/art_c2ae3d2061e14e97ba608de1ed565f78.html
Announcement on the Implementation of Export Control of Items Related to Gallium and Germanium
Secondary analysisInternational Energy Agency (IEA)
IEA policy database summary of MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 23 (2023).
https://www.iea.org/policies/17893-announcement-on-the-implementation-of-export-control-of-items-related-to-gallium-and-germanium
China to impose export controls on key materials for chipmaking as West's 'chip war' escalates
Government / state mediaGlobal Times
Chinese state-media English-edition report on the July 2023 gallium/germanium controls and their stated national-security rationale.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1293637.shtml
Citation
Cite this record
This cites the record — the project's coding of the instrument. For a claim about what a government actually did, cite the primary document itself; the sources above carry the canonical URLs.
Strategic Materials Policy Tracker. "MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 23 of 2023 on export controls on gallium- and germanium-related items." Record evt-cn-gage-2023, 2023-07-03. https://strategic-materials-policy-tracker.vercel.app/events/evt-cn-gage-2023