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Issuing Unit Security and Control Bureau
Release No. Announcement of the Ministry of Commerce No. 61 of 2025
Date of publication October 9, 2025

In order to safeguard national security and interests, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Export Control of Dual-use Items and other laws and regulations, and with the approval of the State Council of China, it is decided to take the following export control measures:

I. Overseas organizations and individuals (hereinafter referred to as "overseas specific export operators") must obtain a dual-use export license issued by the Ministry of Commerce of China before exporting the following items to other countries and regions outside China:
(1) Containing, integrating or mixing the items listed in Part II of Annex 1 of this Announcement that are manufactured abroad in Annex 1 of this Announcement, and the items listed in Part II of Annex 1 account for 0.1% or more of the value of the items listed in Part II of Annex 1 manufactured abroad;
(2) The items listed in Annex 1 of this announcement produced abroad using rare earth mining, smelting and separation, metal smelting, magnetic material manufacturing, and rare earth secondary resource recycling related technologies native to China;
(3) Items listed in Annex 1 of this announcement that are native to China.

II. In principle, export applications to overseas military users, as well as export applications to importers and end users (including subsidiaries, branches and other branches with 50% or more of their control) listed on the export control and control list of concern shall not be allowed.

III. In principle, export applications for or may be used for the following final purposes shall not be allowed:
(1) Design, develop, produce and use weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery;
(2) The purpose of terrorism;
(3) Military use or improve military potential.

IV. The final use is to research and develop and produce logic chips of 14 nanometers or below or storage chips of 256 layers and above, as well as to manufacture production equipment, testing equipment and materials of semiconductors in the above-mentioned process, or to develop export applications for artificial intelligence with potential military purposes, and approve on a case-by-case manner.

V. The final use is for export applications for humanitarian relief such as emergency medical treatment, response to public health emergencies, natural disaster relief, etc. Overseas export operators do not need to apply for a dual-use item export license, but should send an email no later than 10 working days after export (jingwaibaogao @mofcom.gov.cn) Report to the Ministry of Commerce of China and promise that the relevant items will not be used for purposes that endanger China's national security and interests.

VI. Specific overseas export operators applying for an export license for dual-use items shall submit relevant documents in accordance with Article 16 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Export Control of Dual-use Items and the requirements of the Export License Examination and Approval System of the Ministry of Commerce of China. Relevant documents shall be in Chinese. The website of the examination and approval system is: ecomp.mofcom.gov.cn.
Overseas specific export operators can directly submit application documents, and can also entrust enterprises in China, intermediary service institutions, chambers of commerce, associations, etc. to handle them. The relevant intermediary service institutions or chambers of commerce or associations shall be independent legal persons or unincorporated organizations that can independently bear legal responsibilities.
If specific overseas export operators cannot judge whether the items to be exported belong to the items that should be applied for an export license in accordance with the provisions of this announcement, they can consult by email (jingwaizixun@​mofcom.gov.cn).

VII. Domestic export operators shall export the dual-use items listed in the first part of Annex 1 of this announcement, and shall fill in the final destination country or region as required at the time of export customs declaration, and issue a Compliance Notice to overseas importers and end users in accordance with the compliance guidelines attached to this announcement.
Overseas export operators shall, in accordance with the requirements of the compliance guidelines attached to this announcement, issue a Compliance Notice to the next recipient when transferring or exporting items controlled by this announcement.

VIII. The "I (I)" and "I (II)" parts of this announcement will be implemented from December 1, 2025. Part of "I (III)" of this announcement shall be implemented from the date of publication.

Attachment:
1. List of items.wps
2.《 Compliance Notice" Guidelines.wps
Ministry of Commerce
October 9, 2025

II. In principle, export applications to overseas military users, as well as export applications to importers and end users (including subsidiaries, branches and other branches with 50% or more of their control) listed on the export control and control list of concern shall not be allowed.

III. In principle, export applications for or may be used for the following final purposes shall not be allowed:
(1) Design, develop, produce and use weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery;
(2) The purpose of terrorism;
(3) Military use or improve military potential.

Gonna look into US, Israeli, and EU military reliance on Chinese rare earth metals because this is insane

Nice

they issued 4 consecutive announcements in total with other export controls on:

• The machines and expertise to process rare earths - not just the rare earths themselves, but all the specialized equipment and technical know-how to turn rare earth into usable materials (obviously making it all the harder to try to move rare earth processing away from China)

• High-performance batteries - specifically those above 300 Wh/kg needed for long-range EVs and advanced drones. And, again, export controls on all the factory equipment to make them too.

• The materials inside batteries - both graphite anodes and cathode materials (the two electrodes that are essential for batteries to function at all). Export controls also cover the specialized equipment to manufacture all of these components.

• Industrial diamonds and cutting tools - the ultra-hard materials that are used ubiquitously in precision manufacturing, for instance to cut silicon wafers for computer chips

This is absolutely unprecedented. With this China effectively gets veto power over three critical supply chains simultaneously: advanced semiconductors (via rare earths and related equipment), battery-powered vehicles and drones, and precision manufacturing across industries (via superhard materials).

It will all officially take effect on November 8, in one month.

This is not nice if you’re American lol this will spell the end of our economy in many many senses

Atp f*** america

This is actually big, potentially huge, notably because China's new rare earth export controls include a provision (point 4 here: whereby anyone using rare earths to develop advanced semiconductors (defined as 14nm-and-below) will require case-by-case approval.

Which effectively gives China de-facto veto power over the entire advanced semi-conductor supply chain as rare earths are used at critical steps throughout - from ASML (who use rare earths for magnets in their lithography machines) to TSMC.

The export controls are also extra-territorial: foreign entities must obtain Chinese export licenses before re-exporting products manufactured abroad if they contain Chinese rare earth materials comprising 0.1% or more of the product's value.

So China is effectively mirroring the US semiconductor export controls that were used against them, with its own comprehensive extraterritorial control regime, except with rare earths.

Choke these angloid motherfuckers out

I see ...

My unc said learn Chinese 10 years ago. I should have listened

I mean the average american isn't getting anything out of this economy to begin with we've arguably hit the end point of current functioning society so

LMAO me when Chinese AI bots invade

It was over as soon as he was "elected" again. The asteroid is on its way. When or where doesn't really matter anymore

Explain this to me in layman's terms

China owns the monopoly board but instead of property it’s raw materials to make semiconductors and battery’s for ev’s

our economy is already f***ed how could this even make things worse

It’s increasing the rate of implosion for sure

Market is so unpredictable can’t tell if it’s going to react or not tomorrow

lowkey kinda based

Basically all of our precise technology relies on rare earth metals, a majority of which are Chinese-mined

These laws impose a strict control on what can be exported and the process of choosing what is exported, including outright bans on military applications of these materials

Want to mine elsewhere? Too bad! Machinery is subject to these controls too

This puts China in firm control of the raw materials that industries like Electric Vehicles, AI, computing, precise manufacturing (chips, medical equipment) all rely on

good, let's go back to flip phones

Yeah some of my folk said that too but I couldn’t concentrate. Really should’ve done that