The Critical Mineral Export Control Stack
Four Simultaneous Regimes, One Bottleneck Architecture, and the Compliance Reality No Single Counsel Reads End to End
4 calls from this report, among 42 in Mining & Manufacturing.
Each line is one call in the domain, from the day it was written to the day it resolves. This report's calls are lit; point at any line to read it.
- CLM-2026-063The combined stack is durable on a 12-month horizon irrespective of any single bilateral negotiation or WTO action. Each regime is statutorily entrenched in a distinct legal system; the political consensus underwriting each spans more than one electoral cycle.65% · resolves in 215 d
- CLM-2026-068The lesson for the wider regime stack is that WTO remedies are not the operative deterrent against downstreaming mandates on a 12-month horizon.65% · resolves in 215 d
- CLM-2026-066A mid-term review or amendment cycle is more likely than not before 2028.65% · resolves in 426 d
- CLM-2026-064The 47-project March 2025 strategic list, the 40 percent processing benchmark by 2030, and the 65 percent single-source cap are not trajectory-consistent with current EU dependency shares on China.65% · resolves in 1522 d
| ID | Statement | p | Made on | Resolves by | Status | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLM-2026-063 | The combined stack is durable on a 12-month horizon irrespective of any single bilateral negotiation or WTO action. Each regime is statutorily entrenched in a distinct legal system; the political consensus underwriting each spans more than one electoral cycle. | 0.65 | 2026-06-03 | 2027-06-03 | Locked | |
| CLM-2026-064 | The 47-project March 2025 strategic list, the 40 percent processing benchmark by 2030, and the 65 percent single-source cap are not trajectory-consistent with current EU dependency shares on China. | 0.65 | 2026-06-03 | 2030-12-31 | Locked | |
| CLM-2026-066 | A mid-term review or amendment cycle is more likely than not before 2028. | 0.65 | 2026-06-03 | 2027-12-31 | Locked | |
| CLM-2026-068 | The lesson for the wider regime stack is that WTO remedies are not the operative deterrent against downstreaming mandates on a 12-month horizon. | 0.65 | 2026-06-03 | 2027-06-03 | Locked |
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Limitations: License-issuance counts by destination are not published by MOFCOM, so the architecture's discretionary behaviour is inferred from market signal and institutional review rather than observed directly.
Estimative language in this report follows the firm’s published standard: judgments carry HIGH, MODERATE, or LOW confidence, and each carries its rationale in the full report. The framework, source tiers, and anti-fabrication perimeter are public on the methodology page. Corrections issue as numbered addenda.