China imposed export controls on 10 US companies and barred 46 others from government procurement on Monday, escalating trade tensions with Washington.
The Ministry of Commerce of China placed rare-earth firms, drone makers and defence suppliers on its export control list. The order blocks exports of Chinese-origin dual-use items to the named companies.
The export-control list includes MP Materials Corp. and USA Rare Earth. It also names Teal Drones, Red Cat Holdings, Jaia Robotics, Aveox Inc., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Oshkosh Defence.
The export-control list includes MP Materials Corp. and USA Rare Earth. It also names Teal Drones, Red Cat Holdings, Jaia Robotics, Aveox Inc., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Oshkosh Defence.
China’s Ministry of Finance separately banned 46 US companies from Chinese government procurement projects. The affected firms are mainly defence contractors and aerospace suppliers.
The procurement ban covers products made by the listed companies. However, Beijing exempted foreign-funded, locally registered entities linked to those firms.
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The measures followed Washington’s expansion of the Pentagon’s 1260H blacklist. The US list targets Chinese firms that Washington says have links to China’s military.
Recent additions to the US blacklist included Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Baidu Inc. and BYD Company Limited.
The new Chinese measures came less than a month after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit aimed at improving economic ties.
The restrictions also come amid disputes over drones, rare-earth supply chains and defence technology. China controls a major share of global rare-earth refining and magnet-processing capacity.
