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China puts gallium and germanium exports under licence from 1 August 2023

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Source: Ministry of Commerce (via China Daily)Also reported by Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department: circular reproducing MOFCOM/GAC Announcement No. 23 of 2023, Herbert Smith Freehills

China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs issued Announcement No. 23 of 2023 on 3 July, requiring an export licence for 14 gallium- and germanium-related items from 1 August 2023. The list has 8 gallium items, including gallium arsenide, gallium nitride and gallium oxide, and 6 germanium items, including germanium metal and germanium dioxide. Applicants must name the end user and end use.

Why it matters

Chipmakers and defence suppliers abroad that buy Chinese gallium and germanium now need export licences tied to named end users, giving Beijing a lever over semiconductor supply chains.

When
3 Jul 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0018
Where
China
Who
MOFCOM, General Administration of Customs

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Ministry of Commerce (via China Daily) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Ministry of Commerce (via China Daily)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toChina adds extraterritorial rare-earth export controls, then pauses them to Nov 2026

Data to measure this

Compare the years before 2023 with the years since in these series.

  • BACI product-level trade databaseCEPIIHarmonised annual bilateral trade for about 5,000 HS6 products among about 200 countries, including chips.Years: 1995-present · annual · download · CSV · Covers before and after
  • UN ComtradeUnited Nations Statistics Division · paidBilateral goods trade by reporter, partner and product code, for example HS 8542 integrated circuits.monthly · api · CSV, JSON, API

All data for China

Cite this story

WTA-N-2023-0018: “China puts gallium and germanium exports under licence from 1 August 2023.” wheresthe.ai, 3 Jul 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-gallium-germanium-export-controls-2023-07/ (source: Ministry of Commerce (via China Daily)).

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