ab 9 October 2025 Global Research China Sustainability Pulse: Rare Earths control tightens; Recycling tech. covered Highlights What Happened On 9 October 2025, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued an expanded export-control notice covering rare-earth materials and technologies. The updated catalogue adds new controlled categories such as extraction, separation, purification, alloying, and magnet fabrication, and explicitly includes recycled rare-earth ex ...