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MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 10 (2025)

MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 10 of 2025 on export controls on tungsten and related items

商务部 海关总署公告2025年第10号 公布对钨、碲、铋、钼、铟相关物项实施出口管制的决定

English title: project / third-party translation

ActiveExport controlDual-use license

Summary

Added tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum, and indium-related items to the dual-use export control list, requiring licenses. Only tungsten is in the v1 material set; the others are noted here, not coded as materials.

Analytical significance

Extended controls into defense-relevant refractory metals where China holds a dominant processing share. The original-language text and a quoted framing anchor are not yet coded.

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.

Framing anchorNational securityCompliance modernization
为维护国家安全和利益、履行防扩散等国际义务

EN to safeguard national security and interests and fulfil international obligations such as non-proliferation

Ministry of Commerce (China)Primary sourceProject / third-party translation

Justification clause of Announcement No. 10 (2025), from the MOFCOM primary. Same national-security + non-proliferation/compliance clause as Announcement No. 18 and No. 46.

Affected materials

Tungsten钨

Related events

Events touching the same materials.

EUCommission Decision recognising 46 critical raw material projects in the EU as Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials ActJPCertification of Japan New Metals' critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for tungsten under the Economic Security Promotion ActGBNational Wealth Fund backs Tungsten West to unlock critical UK tungsten supplyJPCertification of Allied Material's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for tungsten under the Economic Security Promotion ActCAGovernment of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage (PDAC 2026 funding announcement)GBVision 2035: Critical Minerals Strategy

Sources (3)

MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 10 of 2025 (tungsten et al.)

Primary source

Ministry of Commerce (China)

OfficialzhPublished 4 Feb 2025Accessed 16 Jun 2026

Primary MOFCOM/GACC announcement (No. 10 of 2025) on export controls for tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium related items; source of the verbatim Chinese justification clause.

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https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_e623090907fc4e1092f0a4db72f57b95.html

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Decision to Implement Export Controls on Tungsten, Tellurium, Bismuth, Molybdenum and Indium Related Items

Secondary analysis

International Energy Agency (IEA)

DatasetenAccessed 13 Jun 2026

IEA policy database summary of MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 10 (2025) on tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium.

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https://www.iea.org/policies/26795-decision-to-implement-export-controls-on-tungsten-tellurium-bismuth-molybdenum-and-indium-related-items

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China suspends export controls on certain critical-minerals-related items

Secondary analysis

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

NewsenAccessed 13 Jun 2026

Law-firm timeline of the 2023–2025 Chinese controls and the November 2025 suspensions; used for the February 2025 tungsten measure.

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https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/china-suspends-export-controls-certain-critical-minerals-related-items.html

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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. 10 of 2025 on export controls on tungsten and related items." Record evt-cn-tungsten-2025, 2025-02-04. https://strategic-materials-policy-tracker.vercel.app/events/evt-cn-tungsten-2025

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