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IPTM weekly briefs

Saturday-published synthesis of the week's government actions in the geoeconomic space. Layered on top of the typed action register with cross-cutting analyst commentary.

Published per the operating model in docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md §8. Skip rule: zero new actions + no cross-cutting development = skip (no filler briefs).

2026-W4028 Sept 2026 – 4 Oct 2026· 59 new · 2655 cumulative

Russia energy sanctions are shifting from blanket bans to discretion and licensed carve-outs

2026-W3921 Sept 2026 – 27 Sept 2026· 60 new · 2601 cumulative

The EU converts its Ukraine sanctions regime from a six-month to a 36-month renewal cycle, delisting the three oligarchs France and Slovakia forced onto the table last week, while sixty filings of backfill lay a five-year sanctions-and-critical-minerals spine underneath it

2026-W3814 Sept 2026 – 20 Sept 2026· 34 new · 2548 cumulative

India files coking coal into its critical-minerals statute with three responds_to edges, the week's only multi-node chain, while EU ambassadors crack a six-month Russia sanctions renewal down to seven days

2026-W377 Sept 2026 – 13 Sept 2026· 57 new · 2525 cumulative

Indonesia converts three unrelated commodity chains, palm oil, coal, ferroalloys, into a single state export monopoly, the terminal node of a five-edge, fifteen-month policy build

2026-W3631 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026· 54 new · 2475 cumulative

This week's backfill finally wires the full 2022-2025 US-China chip-for-minerals retaliation spiral into one dated, four-edge chain, ending in the US's own May 2025 climbdown

2026-W3524 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026· 27 new · 2433 cumulative

Ukraine's newest sanctions decree is the first single filing to name all three prior designations against the same Russia-linked crypto network, turning four unilateral actions into one documented convergence

2026-W3417 Aug 2026 – 23 Aug 2026· 10 new · 2402 cumulative

The UK National Wealth Fund's real opening move, filed fifteen months after the fact, was a paired grid-plus-battery bet made one day apart

2026-W3310 Aug 2026 – 16 Aug 2026· 55 new · 2390 cumulative

Section 232's 100% pharmaceutical tariff is a compliance lever, not a border tax: the rate a drugmaker pays is now a direct function of whether it signed Washington's MFN pricing deal

2026-W323 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2026· 55 new · 2332 cumulative

Japan and South Korea's May 2025 tariff-cushioning packages join Brazil's as a pattern, not an isolated response

2026-W3020 Jul 2026 – 26 Jul 2026· 180 new · 2046 cumulative

Chinese-linked solar manufacturing runs out of relocation destinations as US duties on India, Indonesia, and Laos clear 100 percent

2026-W2913 Jul 2026 – 19 Jul 2026· 165 new · 1866 cumulative

Indonesia collapses five years of resource nationalism into one $65 billion state export monopoly

2026-W286 Jul 2026 – 12 Jul 2026· 233 new · 1698 cumulative

Western governments now fight China's rare-earth and gallium chokehold with balance sheets, not tariffs

2026-W2729 Jun 2026 – 5 Jul 2026· 92 new · 1427 cumulative

A global anti-dumping wall against Chinese industrial overcapacity is now visible in full, and it accelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2026

2026-W2622 Jun 2026 – 28 Jun 2026· 57 new · 1331 cumulative

China uses the truce window to strangle the US rare-earth alternative and install enforcement infrastructure -- the November 2026 cliff is now structural

2026-W248 Jun 2026 – 14 Jun 2026· 29 new · 1234 cumulative

China's export-control lifecycle is register-complete -- both suspension windows close 10 November 2026

2026-W2225 May 2026 – 31 May 2026· 228 new · 1162 cumulative

FORGE moves from launch to lattice: the sovereign-demand counter-architecture takes shape

2026-W2011 May 2026 – 17 May 2026· 403 new · 819 cumulative

2026-W1721 Apr 2026 – 27 Apr 2026· 13 new · 13 cumulative

IPTM kickoff — the geoeconomic regulatory perimeter as of week 17

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