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MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 18 of 2025 (medium & heavy rare earths)

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Ministry of Commerce (China)

OfficialzhPublished 4 Apr 2025Accessed 16 Jun 2026

Primary MOFCOM/GACC announcement (No. 18 of 2025) on export controls for certain medium and heavy rare-earth-related items; source of the verbatim Chinese justification clause.

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https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_9c2108ccaf754f22a34abab2fedaa944.html

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Policy events

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  1. MOFCOM & GACC Announcement No. 18 of 2025: export controls on certain medium and heavy rare-earth-related items

    china-rare-earth-controls-2025-04

    • Cited policy event

Control clauses

2 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. customs_enforcement · Customs declaration paragraph

    ctl-cn-ree-2025-04-customs-declaration

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  2. export_licensing · Items 1–7

    ctl-cn-ree-2025-04-export-licensing

    • Control legal-status observation
    • Field evidence: clause
    • Field evidence: direction
    • Field evidence: item_scope
    • Field evidence: legal_basis
    • Field evidence: materials
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    • Field evidence: product_codes
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    • Field evidence: status
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Original-language framing

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

    fc-cn-apr18-natsec

    • Original framing quotation

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