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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.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a final rule amending 31 CFR § 560.540 of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR) to incorporate, with amendments, General License (GL) D-2 — originally issued on OFAC's website on September 23, 2022 — which authorizes the export, reexport, and provision of certain services, software, and hardware incident to communications over the internet to persons in Iran. The codification preserves the GL D-2 expansion (cloud-based services; third-country importation of hardware/software previously exported to Iran; ex-Iran installation, repair and replacement services; case-by-case licensing for internet-freedom activities) and updates the § 560.540 List of Services, Software, and Hardware Incident to Communications. Effective June 17, 2024, the List is amended to exclude laptops, tablets, and personal computing devices with an Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) exceeding 1 Weighted TeraFLOP (WT) — narrowing the consumer-electronics authorization to lower-performance devices and aligning the carve-out with broader BIS-style compute thresholds. The rule does not relax primary ITSR prohibitions; it codifies a humanitarian / internet-freedom exception while inserting a narrow high-performance-compute carve-out.
On April 4, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security published an interim final rule (89 FR 23876) providing corrections, clarifications, and targeted revisions to the October 2023 advanced-computing and semiconductor manufacturing equipment rules. The most substantive change splits the former License Exception NAC (Notified Advanced Computing) into two separate exceptions: NAC (retaining the 25-day prior notification requirement) and a new ACA (Advanced Computing Authorized) exception that permits certain shipments without advance notification. The rule also adds ECCN 4A090.b covering computers and assemblies containing advanced ICs, restores national-security controls to several ECCNs, and addresses various technical drafting errors from the October 2023 rules.