Added with eight other US entities (including drone makers Red Cat and Teal Drones); Chinese exporters may not export dual-use items to listed entities.
Confirmed
MOFCOM Export Control Control List (Announcement No. 23 of 2026)
Added with eight other US entities (including drone makers Red Cat and Teal Drones); Chinese exporters may not export dual-use items to listed entities.
Confirmed
Section 301 tariffs on China (four-year review modifications)
Extraterritorial control: foreign-made magnets and other items containing 0.1% or more by value of Chinese-origin controlled rare earths, or made with Chinese rare-earth technology, need a Chinese licence; licences for military end users denied in principle. Suspended by MOFCOM/GAC Announcement No. 70 of 2025 from 2025-11-07 until 2026-11-10.
Export controls on rare-earth mining, separation, metal smelting, magnet manufacturing and recycling technology, and on unlicensed assistance by Chinese persons to overseas rare-earth activity. Suspended by MOFCOM/GAC Announcement No. 70 of 2025 from 2025-11-07 until 2026-11-10.
Export licensing for samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium metals, alloys, oxides and compounds. Not included in the November 2025 suspension.
Exports of antimony dual-use items to the United States denied in principle; Article 1 also bans all dual-use exports to US military users. Article 2 (this ban) suspended by MOFCOM Announcement No. 72 of 2025 from 2025-11-09 until 2026-11-27.
Exports of germanium dual-use items to the United States denied in principle; Article 1 also bans all dual-use exports to US military users. Article 2 (this ban) suspended by MOFCOM Announcement No. 72 of 2025 from 2025-11-09 until 2026-11-27.
Exports of gallium dual-use items to the United States denied in principle; Article 1 also bans all dual-use exports to US military users. Article 2 (this ban) suspended by MOFCOM Announcement No. 72 of 2025 from 2025-11-09 until 2026-11-27.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs froze Skydio Inc.'s assets in China and barred organizations and individuals in China from transactions or cooperation with it, over U.S. military assistance to Taiwan (Skydio's only Taiwan customer was the National Fire Agency). CEO Adam Bry and APAC GM Tom Moss were also listed. The sanctions cut Skydio's Chinese battery supply, forcing it to ration batteries to one per drone until non-Chinese suppliers came online.
Export licensing for high-purity, high-strength, high-density synthetic graphite and natural flake graphite, including spherical and expanded graphite.
DoD may not acquire samarium-cobalt or NdFeB magnets (and tantalum, tungsten) melted or produced in China, Russia, North Korea or Iran; from 2027-01-01 the ban extends to material mined, refined or separated there (FY2024 NDAA sec. 854).
