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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
On 4 November 2025, Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad (EXIM Bank), a Malaysian government-owned export credit agency, extended a USD 70 million Islamic Overseas Investment Financing facility to Berjaya Okinawa Investment (S) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Berjaya Land Berhad, to support construction of the Four Seasons Resort & Private Residences Okinawa in Japan. The facility is state-linked outbound-investment support extending EXIM Bank's decade-long financing relationship with the Berjaya Group and is logged by Global Trade Alert as a "certainly harmful" financial assistance intervention supporting a Malaysian firm's expansion abroad.
Following an anti-dumping investigation initiated 6 February 2025 (petition by domestic producer CSC Steel Sdn Bhd) and an affirmative preliminary determination imposing provisional duties from 5 July 2025, Malaysia's Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) issued an affirmative final determination and imposed DEFINITIVE anti-dumping duties on imports of galvanised iron/steel coils and sheets (flat-rolled products of alloy or non-alloy steel, plated or coated with zinc via the hot-dip process) originating in or exported from China, South Korea and Vietnam. The measure runs for five years, 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2030, and is enforced by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department under the Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Act 1993 and its 1994 Regulations. Definitive duty rates: China 5.60%-26.80%; South Korea 2.21%-31.47%; Vietnam -14.17% (de minimis/negative for some exporters) to 57.90%.
Malaysia's Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry, acting through the Strategic Trade Controller, issued Directive No. 1/2025 on 14 July 2025 invoking Section 12 of the Strategic Trade Act 2010 to declare high-performance US-origin AI chips (GPUs, TPUs, neural processors, AI accelerators meeting the Annex I total-processing-performance and performance-density thresholds) as "unlisted controlled items". With effect from 14 July 2025, any export, transshipment, or transit of those chips through Malaysian territory requires a Strategic Trade Permit, a 30-day prior notification, an export-control classification from the manufacturer, and a re-export licence from the originating country. The directive is the formal Malaysian response to US scrutiny over alleged Nvidia AI-chip flows to China via Malaysian freight forwarders and data-centre operators, and it remains binding even after the US relaxes its own export rules.
Malaysia's Ministry of Finance gazetted the Customs (Prohibition of Imports) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025, amending the Customs (Prohibition of Imports) Order 2023 (P.U. (A) 117/2023) issued under subsection 31(1) of the Customs Act 1967. The order imposes an absolute prohibition, effective 31 December 2025, on importing dummy buckles, seat-belt alarm stoppers, seat-belt clip extenders, or any other accessory or device designed to be inserted into a seat-belt buckle to disable or bypass the seat-belt safety reminder and render the mechanism inoperative. The ban applies to all countries of origin without exception; Global Trade Alert lists Belgium, China and Czechia as principally affected exporters of the trade-catalogue category covering these parts.
Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) and Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad (EXIM Bank), both wholly state-owned development finance institutions under the BPMB Group, jointly announced on 2025-05-26 a RM700 million (approximately USD 166 million) financing package for Duta Marine Sdn Bhd, a Bumiputera-owned offshore marine services company. The facility comprises RM555 million from BPMB and USD 37 million in Islamic financing from EXIM Bank, funding the acquisition, conversion, refurbishment and mobilisation of an oil tanker into a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel — FSO Permata Dulang — to replace the ageing FSO Puteri Dulang serving Malaysia's Dulang oil field under a 10+5 year charter with Petronas Carigali.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced a RM1.5 billion domestic-cushioning financing package for SMEs affected by newly imposed US reciprocal tariffs, unveiled during a special parliamentary sitting on 5 May 2025. The package comprises a RM1 billion increase to the Business Financing Guarantee Scheme (Skim Jaminan Pembiayaan Perniagaan, SJPP) for tariff-exposed SME exporters, plus an additional RM500 million Soft Financing Fund channelled through Malaysia's Development Financial Institutions (DFIs). Matrade also received an additional RM50 million to support market diversification into Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and South America.