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On 4 September 2026, OFAC issued Iran General License CC, authorizing wind-down of transactions involving Golden Global Yatırım Bankası, Golden Global Varlık Kiralama, and Golden Global Portföy Yönetimi (three linked Istanbul financial entities blocked the same day under E.O. 13902), through 12:01 a.m. EDT on 19 September 2026. On 8 September 2026, following SDN designation of 34 entities and one individual — chiefly Iranian passenger airlines (Air Shiraz, ATA Airlines, Iran Air Tour, Iran Aseman, Mahan-network carriers among others) and their UAE/UK/Malaysia/Kazakhstan support entities — and suspension of Iran General License J-1 (which had authorized reexport of civil aircraft to Iran), OFAC issued General License DD, authorizing wind-down of civil-aviation-related and other transactions previously authorized under the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations, through 12:01 a.m. ET on 23 September 2026. Both licenses were formally published in the Federal Register on 11 September 2026. Neither license relaxes the underlying restrictions; both are time-limited exit ramps administering an already-restrictive posture.

Following concurrent first five-year ("sunset") reviews, the US Department of Commerce and USITC determined that revoking the antidumping duty orders on silicon metal from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland and Malaysia, and the countervailing duty order on silicon metal from Kazakhstan, would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping, countervailable subsidies and material injury to the US industry. Commerce published continuation of all four orders effective 2026-09-03, so US Customs and Border Protection keeps collecting AD/CVD cash deposits at the existing rates — Kazakhstan's 120.00% economy-wide CVD rate, Bosnia and Herzegovina's 21.41% AD rate, Iceland's 37.83%-47.54% AD range, and Malaysia's 12.27% final AD rate — for a further five years absent a subsequent review.

On September 2, 2026, OFAC amended its Venezuela minerals-sector general licenses to bring coal within their scope and to name a second Venezuelan state-owned company, Carbones del Zulia S.A. ("Carbozulia"), alongside the existing mining SOE CVG Compañía General de Minería de Venezuela C.A. ("Minerven"). GL 51D (supersedes 51C, dated August 27, 2026) authorizes export, sale, purchase and transport of Venezuelan-origin coal or minerals, including gold; GL 54C (supersedes 54B) authorizes supply of goods, technology and services to coal-or-minerals operations; and new GL 55A authorizes negotiating and entering contingent contracts (bids, MOUs, agreements in principle) for coal-or-minerals investment, each contract conditioned on separate OFAC authorization before execution. OFAC also amended FAQ 1247. All three licenses remain conditioned on US/UK/France/Singapore dispute-resolution forum selection, routing of blocked-person payments into the Foreign Government Deposit Funds established by Executive Order 14373, and continue to exclude Russia-, Iran-, North Korea-, Cuba- and China-linked counterparties.

On 1 September 2026 the European Commission approved a EUR 30 million Portuguese State aid scheme, under the Middle East Crisis Temporary State Aid Framework (METSAF, adopted 29 April 2026), compensating agricultural, fishery and aquaculture businesses for increased fuel and fertiliser costs. Fishing and aquaculture operators receive direct grants of EUR 0.10 per litre of marine diesel consumed between 1 April and 30 June 2026; agricultural beneficiaries receive payments scaled to farm size and livestock numbers to offset higher fertiliser costs. Individual beneficiaries are capped at EUR 50,000 and the scheme runs until 31 December 2026.

On 1 September 2026 the European Commission published a notice of initiation of a partial interim review of the anti-dumping measures in force since 2022 on imports of silicon metal originating in China, following a request lodged 8 July 2026 by Euroalliages on behalf of the Union silicon industry. Euroalliages argues that Chinese production overcapacity has grown "massive" and export prices have fallen further since the original investigation, such that the current duties no longer offset the dumping margin. The review investigation period runs from July 2025 to June 2026; the existing duties remain in force and uncollected/undetermined pending the outcome.

The European Commission approved, under EU State aid rules, a German capacity mechanism authorising up to EUR 35.2 billion in support for electricity generation, storage and demand-side flexibility capacity through 2045. The scheme is technology-neutral, allocates support via competitive auctions (first auction 8 September 2026, 15-year contracts, delivery from 2031), and requires new gas-fired plants to be hydrogen-capable and to reach climate-neutral operation by 2045 at the latest. The Commission estimates annual scheme cost at EUR 1-3 billion in 2031 and EUR 0.9-2.3 billion per year from 2032-2045.

The US Department of State published an interim final rule removing from the US Munitions List (USML) certain civil aircraft modified to incorporate aircraft survivability equipment (ASE) — directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) and the missile-warning systems that operate them, used to protect aircraft from MANPADS and other guided-weapon threats. Qualifying aircraft (FAA- or allied-NATO-certificated transport/commuter types before modification) move from State/ITAR licensing jurisdiction to the less restrictive Commerce/EAR regime under ECCN 9A991.b. The rule also excludes certain reexport and temporary-import activities involving such ASE from ITAR licensing requirements entirely. Effective October 13, 2026, with public comments accepted through September 28, 2026.

The US Department of State extended, through 30 August 2028, a standing temporary modification of Category XI(b) of the US Munitions List (USML) — the ITAR category covering electronic systems and software specially designed for collecting, surveying, monitoring or exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum for intelligence purposes. The modification reinstates pre-30-December-2014 control scope by reinserting the phrase "analyze and produce information from" and adding software to the Category XI(b) description, after a 2014 USML revision was read by some exporters as narrowing coverage of intelligence-analytics software. This is the latest in a chain of extensions dating to the original July 2014 rule (79 FR 37536), most recently extended through August 2026 (86 FR 48021); no new items are added to or removed from the Munitions List by this action.

Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines, through the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), issued Resolución Directoral N.° 137-2026-MINEM/DGH suspending Article 43 of the fuel-marketing regulation (Decreto Supremo N.° 045-2001-EM), which requires producers and wholesale distributors to hold minimum stocks of Premium/Regular gasoline, gasohol, and Diesel B5. The exception is nationwide, applies with retroactive effect from 14 August to 13 September 2026, and responds to logistical and inventory replenishment difficulties (maritime and land transport disruptions) affecting fuel supply continuity. A related, narrower exception to biofuel-blending obligations (ethanol-gasoline and B100 biodiesel-diesel mixing) applies in six regions — Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Puno, Cusco, and Madre de Dios — from 17 August to 1 September 2026. Producers and distributors face a 15-calendar-day adjustment period after each exception lapses to resume compliance, and Peru's energy regulator OSINERGMIN is tasked with monitoring compliance.

President Trump signed Executive Order 14420 on 26 August 2026, declaring a national emergency under IEEPA and the National Emergencies Act over foreign threats to the US bulk-power system. The order generally prohibits the acquisition, import, transfer, or installation of foreign-produced bulk-power system electric equipment — transformers, inverters, battery storage, generators, circuit breakers, turbines, and industrial control systems, including associated software and remote-access capabilities — where a transaction involves a "Covered Foreign Entity" and poses a risk of sabotage, unauthorized access, or catastrophic disruption to critical infrastructure. Local electric distribution facilities are excluded. No countries or companies are named in the order itself; DOE must publish implementing rules within 120 days (by 24 December 2026) identifying covered equipment and entities, and submit recommended Federal Acquisition Regulation revisions within 180 days.

On 26 August 2026, President Trump signed a proclamation temporarily expanding the in-quota tariff-rate quota for lean beef trimmings by 300,000 metric tons, released in three 100,000 mt tranches over 90 days starting 1 September 2026. The additional volume lets eligible trading partners (excluding FTA partners and countries with existing country-specific quotas) import lean beef trimmings for combination with U.S. beef into ground beef at the lower in-quota duty rate rather than the higher out-of-quota rate, on a first-come, first-served basis across four specific HTSUS statistical lines. Importers are directed to pass through a 25% discount from the going import price. The measure responds to elevated U.S. ground-beef prices driven by a shrunken domestic cattle herd and screwworm-related border disruption, and follows an earlier TRQ expansion the White House dates to 6 February 2026.

Canada's Department of Finance published an updated list of over 700 US-origin products subject to counter-tariffs effective 2026-09-08, covering CA$27.6 billion of US imports across steel, aluminium, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp/paper and electronics. Rates (15%, 25% or 50% depending on product) are matched dollar-for-dollar to the corresponding US Section 338/232 tariffs on the same goods, explicitly countering the United States' 22 August 2026 decision to impose a 50% tariff on CA$27.6 billion of Canadian goods. Steel and aluminium flat-rolled products carry the top 50% counter-rate.

On 24 August 2026, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Department of State and pursuant to 31 CFR 560.802, determined that section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 shall apply to the aviation, digital asset, gold, shipping, and technology sectors of the Iranian economy, effective the same day and formally published in the Federal Register on 27 August 2026 (FR Doc 2026-17487). The determination — part of a Treasury campaign publicly branded "Operation Economic Outcast" — exposes any person operating in, or knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the sale, supply, or transfer of significant goods or services to or from, these five sectors to secondary-sanctions and SDN-listing risk under E.O. 13902, and extends potential correspondent/ payable-through account restrictions to foreign financial institutions that knowingly facilitate such transactions. OFAC did not publish sector definitions and concurrently suspended several general licenses covering educational exchange, personal remittance, conference, and academic/ sports-exchange activity with Iran (administered separately via GL AA and GL BB, wind-down through 8 September 2026).

On 24 August 2026, OFAC issued two Iran-related general licenses (GL AA and GL BB), formally published in the Federal Register on 27 August 2026. GL AA authorizes wind-down of transactions and maintenance of operations involving La Nivernaise De Raffinage SAS (a French entity) and any entity in which it owns a 50%-or-greater interest, through 12:01 a.m. EDT, 23 October 2026 — an orderly-exit carve-out tied to exposure under Executive Order 13902. GL BB separately authorizes, through 12:01 a.m. EDT, 8 September 2026, wind-down of transactions previously authorized under five narrower general licenses/regulations covering educational activities, personal remittances, conference-related services, and academic/sports exchanges with Iran. Both are narrow, time-limited carve-outs administering an underlying restrictive sanctions posture, not a relaxation of policy.

On 21 August 2026 Niger's Council of Ministers, under the presidency of General Abdourahamane Tiani, awarded two large-scale uranium exploitation permits. The In Azaoua perimeter (Arlit Commune, Agadez Region) — the ground previously worked by the Orano-majority Société des Mines de l'Aïr (SOMAÏR), nationalised June 2025 — was granted to TSUMCO SA (Teloua Safeguarding Uranium Mining Company), the wholly state-owned successor operator created in May 2026. The Madaouela I permit (Arlit Urban Commune), previously held by Canada's GoviEx Uranium before reverting to the public domain on 31 July 2024, was re-attributed to Madaouela Mining Company (MAMICO), now 60%-held by Australia's Atomic Eagle (GoviEx's restructured successor) and 40% by the Nigerien State — up from a prior minority state stake. MAMICO paid a $10 million redevance forfaitaire to the state and committed to roughly 1,000 local jobs and local-content procurement.

At the 3rd meeting of METI's Industrial Structure Council Mining Subcommittee (2026-08-20), METI presented a policy-direction paper proposing to let JOGMEC (Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security) acquire equity stakes in overseas critical-mineral mining and refining projects on its own, without the Japanese private co-investor currently required under JOGMEC's funding rules. The change targets rare earths, nickel, manganese and other minerals designated critical under Japan's Economic Security Promotion Act, for projects too risky to draw private capital; JOGMEC would hold the stake for roughly a decade before selling down to private firms. This is a committee policy-direction document, not yet a cabinet order, ministerial ordinance or budget appropriation.

President Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation on 13 August 2026 (published in the Federal Register 19 August 2026, FR doc 2026-16979) imposing tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drones) and components, following a Commerce Department finding that US reliance on foreign-produced (chiefly Chinese, e.g. DJI/Autel) drones and critical components creates supply-chain and cybersecurity national- security risk. A 100% ad valorem tariff applies to Annex I items (drones with maximum takeoff weight over 25kg, thermal-imaging drones, docking stations, and listed critical components); a 25% ad valorem tariff applies to Annex II items (other listed UAS). Qualifying-origin content from the EU, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and Liechtenstein is capped at 15%; UK-origin content is capped at 10%. UAS duties take effect 3 September 2026; component duties take effect 9 February 2027. The proclamation also authorizes Commerce to set up an onshoring program giving temporary relief to firms committing to build or expand US production of covered drones and components.

On 12 August 2026 Sweden's Ministry of Defence announced SEK 500 million (~USD 52.4M) in state co-financing to guarantee matching funds for Swedish companies applying to the EU's European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP) "Energetic Components" call, which disburses over EUR 165 million to European producers of propellants, explosives and ammunition components. Defence Minister Pål Jonson described the structure as one-for-one matching: for every SEK the EU invests in a Swedish project, the state matches it, with industry covering the remainder. Named beneficiary companies are EURENCO Bofors, Sweden Ballistics, Norma Precision, Nammo Sweden and JUNGHANS Microtec, targeting bottlenecks in propelling-charge and fuze manufacturing for the Archer artillery system and small-calibre ammunition/explosives production.

On 11 August 2026 the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), part of HM Treasury, imposed a £4,732,830.58 monetary penalty on Citibank N.A., London Branch (CBNA London) under section 146 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, for breaches of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021. Across eight categorised "Matters" spanning payment processing, correspondent banking and account restrictions — mostly occurring between February and November 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine — CBNA London processed payments and dealt with frozen funds totalling approximately £19,720,127.43 in breach value, including exposure to designated shipping company PJSC Sovcomflot and a designated Russian individual's corporate network. OFSI rated the case Level 4 (its highest severity tier), with conduct assessed as aggravating; the penalty was reduced from a baseline of roughly £7.89 million via a voluntary-disclosure and cooperation discount. Announced 2 September 2026, this is OFSI's largest financial-sanctions penalty since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, surpassing the prior record held by Sabre Global Technologies Limited (£1,000,921, May 2026).

The White House announced over $2 billion in direct federal investment across eight critical-minerals and battery-material companies, funded through the Department of War (formerly DOD), the Export-Import Bank, and the Development Finance Corporation. The largest awards are $1.4 billion to Sila Nanotechnologies for silicon-carbon battery anodes and lithium-ion cell manufacturing, $400 million to Sunrise Energy Metals for a scandium value chain, and $150 million to Niron Magnetics for rare-earth-free permanent magnet production in Minnesota. An additional $180 million was committed to mining-workforce education across 17 schools.

The European Commission initiated an investigation under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1925 of 6 August 2026 into possible circumvention, via Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia and Serbia, of the anti-dumping duties imposed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/357 on open mesh fabrics of glass fibres originating in China. A corrigendum correcting certain language versions of the initiating regulation was published 6 September 2026. The Commission suspects Chinese producers are routing product through Balkan and Moldovan assemblers to avoid duties currently ranging 48.4%–62.9% ad valorem on Chinese-origin open mesh fabrics.

BIS published a temporary final rule under DPA section 101 (following a Presidential Determination dated July 30, 2026 that recoverable critical minerals and materials are scarce and essential to national defense) requiring U.S. persons to allocate 100 percent of their monthly sales of black mass (shredded lithium-ion battery scrap containing lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and graphite) and tungsten waste and scrap to other U.S. persons, effectively barring export of these materials without an explicit BIS adjustment or exception. The order takes effect August 27, 2026, runs for one year through August 27, 2027, and BIS is accepting public comments through November 4, 2026 on whether additional sales requirements are needed. This is the first US DPA/export-control action targeting the recycling and secondary-materials stage of the critical minerals supply chain, rather than primary mining or refining.

China's Ministry of Commerce announced that drones, key drone components, and related technologies already listed on China's Dual-Use Items Export Control List will be subject to strict case-by-case review when exported to the United States, and will no longer be eligible for licensing-facilitation measures. The measure does not add new items to the control list or ban exports outright — it tightens the review standard and removes expedited-licensing treatment for existing listed drone items. MOFCOM said the move is a countermeasure responding to recent US actions, including the FCC's ban on imports of Chinese drones and DHS's addition of 43 Chinese companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list.

China's Ministry of Commerce issued Order No. 2 [2026] on 5 August 2026, imposing countermeasures under Articles 3, 4, 6, 9, 10 and 15 of the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law against six US entities — Applied DNA Sciences, Stratum Reservoir, Altana Technologies, the Responsible Business Alliance, Verite Group, and Human Rights in China — for "assisting and supporting" US sanctions and restrictions targeting Xinjiang. The order prohibits organizations and individuals within China from conducting transactions or cooperation with the six named entities, effective immediately. The stated trigger is Washington's prior import ban on products from 43 Chinese companies over alleged Xinjiang forced-labor practices.

Japan's Ministry of Finance, acting on a provisional affirmative determination from the Customs Tariff Council following a METI/MOF joint dumping investigation opened in August 2025, imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty on hot-dip galvanized steel strips and sheets originating in South Korea and China (Hong Kong and Macau excluded). The measure took effect August 8, 2026 under Cabinet Order No. 254 of 2026, and runs through December 7, 2026 pending a final determination. The product is used in guard rails, building/housing materials, fencing, and appliance parts such as refrigerators.

On 29 July 2026 Allied Gold Corporation (TSX/NYSE: AAUC) and Zijin Gold International Company Ltd. terminated their previously announced C$5.5B (~US$3.9-4B) arrangement agreement, under which Zijin Gold would have acquired 100% of Allied Gold, after concluding the deal's closing conditions would not be satisfied by the 29 July 2026 outside date. Trade press (ION Analytics/Dealreporter, Investing News Network, Ecofin Agency) reports the transaction stalled because China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) required in-depth review over two concerns: the premium Zijin was paying relative to Allied's market valuation, and geopolitical-risk concentration from Allied's exposure to Mali, which supplies roughly half of Allied's gold output (via the Sadiola mine). In place of the full takeover, Zijin Gold agreed same-day to a non-brokered private placement subscribing for ~12.8 million Allied common shares at C$32.55/share (~US$295M gross proceeds), taking a 9.2% stake expected to close on or about 10 August 2026. This is the first Chinese outbound mining M&A the register has logged since 2025-04-23, following a roughly 16-month gap, and marks an outbound-investment-screening precedent constraining a Chinese SOE-adjacent acquirer's exposure to Sahel political risk.

China's Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 30 of 2026 on July 24, 2026, adding 14 EU-based entities to the Export Control Management List under the Export Control Law and Dual-Use Items Export Control Regulations. The listing bars Chinese exporters from supplying dual-use items to the named entities, bars any overseas party from transferring or providing China-origin dual-use items to them, and orders ongoing related transactions to stop immediately; exporters may apply to MOFCOM for case-by-case exemption. It is the first MOFCOM entity-list action ever to target EU-domiciled entities and the first ever to name a university (Wrocław University of Science and Technology). The 14 entities span Germany (Rheinmetall AG, Sindlhauser Materials GmbH, Antraco Chemie-Handelsgesellschaft mbH), Italy (Lafert S.p.A., Garnet S.r.l.), France (InPACT S.A., III-V LAB, Cavok UAS), Poland (Vigo Photonics S.A., Politechnika Wrocławska), the Netherlands (IHC Merwede Holding B.V.), Czechia (TATRA TRUCKS a.s.), Bulgaria (Opticoelectron Group) and Lithuania (Ekspla UAB) — defence, drone, photonics, laser, semiconductor and maritime-engineering firms and research institutes. The action came roughly 24 hours after the EU's 21st Russia sanctions package (adopted July 23, 2026) added Chinese and Hong Kong dual-use-trading entities to its own restricted list, and is widely read as a reciprocal countermeasure.

On 24 July 2026 Commerce's International Trade Administration published the preliminary results of the first full five-year ("sunset") review of the countervailing duty order on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (case C-714-004, in force since 2021). Commerce preliminarily determined that revoking the order would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable subsidy to OCP Group at a rate of 20.04% ad valorem — well above OCP's most recent administrative-review rate of 16.81% and the 2.11% rate that applied after a December 2025 court remand. The review is procedural and does not itself change the duty currently being collected; it addresses whether the underlying CVD order survives long-term, separate from the temporary emergency AD/CVD duty-free window the White House granted on 29 June 2026.

Decreto Supremo N° 014-2026-EM, published by Peru's Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MINEM) on 20 July 2026, amends Decreto Supremo N° 042-2017-EM (the Reglamento de Protección Ambiental para Actividades de Exploración Minera) to raise the exploration-platform ceiling eligible for the fast-track Declaración de Impacto Ambiental (DIA) pathway from 40 to 60 platforms, processed within 30 business days. Projects exceeding 60 platforms still require the longer semi-detailed environmental impact study (EIAsd) process (90 business days). The decree also tightens agency review timelines and removes duplicate observation cycles between evaluating entities. It is a supply-side liberalising/permitting-streamlining measure rather than a rate or ownership change, in a priority-tier chokepoint country for copper and other strategic minerals.

President Trump signed Executive Order 14415 on 20 July 2026, tightening the 10 U.S.C. 4872(c)(1) "specialty metals" waiver process for defense contractors: from 1 January 2027, waivers will be granted only under approved mitigation plans showing "exhaustive efforts" to source compliant materials and a documented timeline for removing non-compliant content. The order requires the Secretary of War to develop, within 180 days, a supply-chain mapping policy compelling contractors to trace covered materials to raw-material origin ("indentured Bill of Materials"), with final implementing regulations due 90 days after that, and a source-qualification acceleration strategy for domestic and allied alternatives to "unreliable foreign suppliers" due within 90 days. Mandatory progress reporting runs at 6-month intervals through 1 January 2028. The order explicitly preserves the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve ("Project Vault") and Export-Import Bank-financed or government-backed sourcing arrangements from its restrictions.

On 15 July 2026 India's Ministry of Mines, under Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, launched the eighth tranche of e-auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks, covering 20 blocks across nine states. The portfolio spans molybdenum, graphite, glauconite, rare earth elements, vanadium, gallium, titanium, tungsten, phosphorite, potash, lithium, caesium and rubidium. Tender documents were available from 15 July to 14 September 2026; technical bids and initial price offers were due 21 September 2026, via a two-stage ascending forward e-auction. This is part of a sustained domestic resource-nationalism programme: seven prior tranches have auctioned 56 of 88 blocks identified for auction since the programme began.

BIS published a final rule removing the UAE from Export Administration Regulations Country Groups D:3 and D:4 and adding it to Country Group A:5 — the tier reserved for the closest US allies. The change unlocks License Exception STA (military items, commercial satellites/spacecraft, and dual-use goods for oil/gas, desalination and civil nuclear power) plus several other license exceptions, and grants the UAE government and BIS-preapproved entities (currently G42 and Core42 only, per Supplement No. 8) license-free export of advanced computing items. Preapproved private entities have a 270-day window to become majority US-owned or lose automatic eligibility; other private UAE entities must still petition BIS case-by-case.

On 10 July 2026 OFAC issued Iran General License Y, authorizing the wind down of transactions involving Smart Global Limited (a Saint Kitts and Nevis holding company designated the same day alongside 5 other entities and 8 individuals), with payments to blocked parties to go into blocked accounts; it expired 9 August 2026. On 14 July 2026 OFAC issued General License Z under E.O. 13902, authorizing wind-down activity for blocked persons and vessels listed in an 11-entry annex (financial wind-down, safe port docking and departure, crew safety, emergency repairs, offloading of pre-14 July cargo); it expired 12 September 2026. Both licenses were formally published in the Federal Register on 23 September 2026 (91 FR 60304).

On 9 July 2026 Chile's Contraloría General de la República published Resolución N°14/2026 in the Diario Oficial, modifying its prior toma de razón exemption framework for corporate acts of state copper producers Codelco and Enami. Instead of requiring preventive review (toma de razón) before corporate acts of affiliates take effect, the resolution lets Codelco/Enami adopt the acts first and submit supporting documentation (board minutes and background materials) for ex-post Contraloría review within 10 business days. The change ends a dispute that began when Contraloría required preventive review of Codelco's formation of Minera Ascotán SpA (Codelco 34% / Quiborax 66%, for the Salar de Ascotán lithium project), which had stalled that CEOL's corporate structuring; Codelco withdrew its recurso de amparo económico against Contraloría after the resolution was published.

Japan's Ministry of Finance and METI imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of 3.6% to 42.1% (varying by exporter) on nickel-added cold-rolled stainless steel coil, sheet and strip (alloy steel with >=10.5% chromium and >0.6% nickel by weight) originating in or exported from China and Taiwan. The Cabinet Order was made public 8 July 2026 and the provisional duty applies 9 July 2026 to 8 November 2026, pending the investigation MOF/METI opened 22 July 2025.