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MOFCOM extended export licensing to gallium and germanium processing equipment
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because China just extended export controls to the equipment that makes gallium and germanium chips while the US locked down sub-14nm tool sales — a two-way choke that is already delaying compound-semiconductor parts for Western defense and power-electronics makers.
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OFFICIAL GAZETTETIER 1JUL 1
MOFCOM Announcement 2026-38
Primary-source regulation text; machine-translated, human-checked.
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Extracted by pipeline v0.4 from gazette text · translation reviewed Jul 1.
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