China Finalizes New Export Control on Crucial Mine Processing Technologies

The move materializes a threat made in the earlier stage of the trade war with the United States.
China Finalizes New Export Control on Crucial Mine Processing Technologies
A worker with car batteries in Nanjing, China, on March 12, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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China has finalized new export controls on technologies crucial to making batteries and processing critical minerals, materializing a threat made in the earlier stage of its trade war with the United States.

In a joint announcement on July 15, China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology unveiled an updated version of its Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export.

Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.