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NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/Tech/TS/2024/239275) for a road-construction contract in Telangana state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,348.09 crore (~USD 162.4m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 1 October 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal for a road-construction contract in Telangana state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,979.11 crore (~USD 238m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and supporting-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 1 October 2025.

Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue notified SRO 1898(I)/2025 on 1 October 2025, imposing a 40% regulatory duty (RD) on the commercial import of used vehicles under PCT headings 8702, 8703, 8704 and 8711, limited to vehicles less than five years old. The measure operationalises a Ministry of Commerce scheme (SRO 1895(I)/2025, 30 September 2025) that for the first time authorises a commercial (dealer-run) import channel for used vehicles, which had previously been restricted to the non-commercial personal-baggage/gift/transfer-of-residence schemes. The Economic Coordination Committee approved the scheme on 18 September 2025 and it was ratified by the federal cabinet; imports also remain subject to Engineering Development Board environmental, safety and quality certification. The Tariff Policy Board's published trajectory reduces the RD by 10 percentage points per year after 30 June 2026, reaching 0% by FY2029-30.

India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued a Request for Proposal (ref. CE-RO/LKO/NH(O)/11/NH-328/Civil Work/2022-23) for a road-construction contract on National Highway 328 in Uttar Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 351.25 crore (~USD 39.5m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 29 September 2025.

China's Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 51 of 2025 on 25 September 2025, adding three US entities — Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (NYSE: HII, the largest US military shipbuilder), Planate Management Group, and Global Dimensions LLC — to China's Export Control List (出口管制 管控名单), effective the same day. The listing prohibits Chinese exporters from supplying dual-use items to the three firms and requires any ongoing related export activity to cease immediately. MOFCOM cited the firms' "military-technical cooperation with China's Taiwan region" as the trigger, issued in parallel with a same-day Unreliable Entity List designation of three other US firms (Saronic Technologies, Aerkomm, Oceaneering International).

China's MOFCOM Unreliable Entity List Working Mechanism designated three US firms — Saronic Technologies, Aerkomm Inc., and Oceaneering International — on 25 September 2025, effective the same day, under Article 2 of the Provisions on the Unreliable Entity List (MOFCOM Order No. 4 of 2020) and citing the Foreign Trade Law, the National Security Law, and the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law. MOFCOM's stated trigger is the firms' "so-called military-technical collaboration with China's Taiwan region." Measures bar the designees from China-related import/export activity and new investment in mainland China, with entry/work-permit restrictions on relevant management personnel.

India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) issued a Request for Proposal (tender ref. NH-309A/AP/UK/2022-23/627) for a National Highway road-construction contract in Uttarakhand state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 316.70 crore (~USD 38m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 23 September 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/2025/Guj/PIU-EktaNagar/Bodeli-Vapi/Pkg-VI) for a road-construction package on the Bodeli-Vapi route in Gujarat state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,382.41 crore (~USD 166.6m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and support-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 18 September 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/2025/Guj/PIU-EktaNagar/Bodeli-Vapi/Pkg-IV) for a road-construction package on the Bodeli-Vapi route in Gujarat state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,440.28 crore (~USD 173.6m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and support-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 18 September 2025.

On 8 September 2025, the UK Ministry of Defence published the Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 — "Making Defence an Engine for Growth" (CP 1388) — the first comprehensive cabinet-level UK defence industrial strategy in over a decade and the sector plan for Defence under the UK Modern Industrial Strategy umbrella (IS-8). The strategy was published alongside the Strategic Defence Review 2025 and operationalises the largest sustained defence- spending increase since the Cold War (rising to 2.6% of GDP by 2027 with ambition to 3% in the next Parliament). It defines six priority outcomes (growth, backing UK businesses, defence innovation, resilient industrial base, procurement transformation, enduring partnerships); establishes UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) within the MOD with a ringfenced £400m budget to accelerate dual-use technology; identifies priority defence capabilities (combat air, complex weapons, directed-energy weapons, next- generation land and maritime systems) plus dual-use sub-sectors (quantum, drones/autonomy, space, AI, cyber, engineering biology, advanced connectivity); and flags resilience priorities in steel, construction, energetic materials, batteries, semiconductors and rare earths.

A road-construction tender in Maharashtra state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 2,575.08 crore (~USD 310m), embeds a domestic-supplier bid-evaluation preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. The preference applies across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 3 September 2025.

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) issued a public procurement tender for construction work in Bangalore on 2 September 2025 that embeds a domestic-supplier local-content requirement under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. The preference applies to bid evaluation in the general-construction and civil-engineering categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced and implemented the same day; the specific NIT reference and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently located on BMRCL's e-tender portal.

India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued a Request for Proposal on 2 September 2025 for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) road contract in the state of Bihar. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 2 September 2025; contract value and tender reference number are not disclosed in publicly accessible sources.

India's Ministry of Road Transport & Highways issued a Request for Proposal for a road-construction contract in Karnataka state that embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 1 September 2025; the underlying tender reference, route, and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently confirmed.

Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Ltd (MRVC) issued a public procurement tender on 29 August 2025 for carshed-expansion works at Kurla and Kalwa that embeds a domestic-supplier local-content requirement under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. The preference applies to bid evaluation in the general-construction and civil-engineering categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced and implemented the same day; the specific NIT reference and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently located on MRVC's e-tender portal.

RITES Ltd, a Government of India public-sector engineering consultancy, floated an EPC tender on behalf of Oil India Limited (OIL) for construction of a workman housing complex at OIL's Duliajan site in Assam (tender ID 2025_RITES_246752_1; ~29,400 sqm, 192 units; estimated value approx. INR 160 crore / USD 19.3 million). The tender embeds a local-content bidder-preference requirement consistent with India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers in the general-construction category. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 28 August 2025.

India's Ministry of Railways, through Northeast Frontier Railway's construction organisation, issued a tender for tunnel construction and associated electrical/mechanical works in Manipur (part of the broader NFR hill-section rail-line project, which includes 14 tunnels totalling roughly 24 km) that embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction and site-preparation categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 27 August 2025; the underlying tender reference and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently confirmed.

India's Ministry of Railways issued a tender for construction of railway infrastructure between Borivali and Virar stations (part of the Mumbai Suburban Railway 5th/6th line quadrupling project) that embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, restricting or giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering and general-construction categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 27 August 2025; the underlying tender reference and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently confirmed.

India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) issued a tender valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 358.23 crore (~USD 43m) for upgrading approximately 107 km of National Highway 754K in Gujarat. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers (minimum 50% local content) across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 22 August 2025.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) issued a public procurement tender (ID 2025_AAI_245611_1, value INR 572.36 crore) on 21 August 2025 for construction of a new domestic terminal building at Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, embedding a domestic-supplier local-content minimum and preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced and implemented the same day; the exact preference-margin percentage applied to this tender sits behind GTA's account-gated detail view and was not independently located on AAI's e-tender portal.

India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) issued a road-construction tender (ref. 2025_MoRTH_874028_1) for a project in Uttarakhand state on 21 August 2025, embedding a bid-evaluation preference for suppliers with higher local content under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced and implemented the same day; the contract value and exact preference-margin percentage sit behind GTA's account-gated detail view and were not independently located on MoRTH's e-tender portal.

India's Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), a central public-sector power utility under the Ministry of Power, issued Tender Document No. DVC/Tender/Head Quarter/SPE/CMM/Works and Service/00077/Capital on 20 August 2025 for the survey, design, supply, and replacement of existing conductors with high-temperature low-sag (HTLS) conductors on its 132kV D/C transmission lines. The tender restricts eligibility to 'Class-I local suppliers' under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving domestic manufacturers a bid-evaluation advantage in the electrical-equipment/civil-engineering procurement category. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 20 August 2025; the underlying contract value and full tender scope sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently confirmed via trade press.

DVC, a central-government-owned power utility, issued a tender for a 132kV solar pooling station and 132kV double-circuit LILO transmission line at Konar, Jharkhand, to evacuate power from a 228 MW floating-solar project and a 100 MW/400 MWh battery storage system. The tender is valued at INR 113,169,393.72 (~USD 13.6m, requiring an EMD of INR 1,131,693.90) and embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving Class-I local suppliers a bid-evaluation advantage in civil-engineering and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 20 August 2025.

The US Department of Commerce initiated a countervailing-duty (CVD) investigation of certain freight rail couplers and parts thereof from India (case C-533-941) on 18 August 2025, covering the period of investigation 1 April 2024 - 31 March 2025. On 27 February 2026 Commerce issued a preliminary affirmative determination, published in the Federal Register 3 March 2026, finding countervailable subsidy rates of 6.02% for Kharagpur Metal Reforming Industries, 5.47% for Texmaco Rail & Engineering, and 5.90% for all other Indian producers/exporters; Jupiter Wagons and Bhilai Engineering Corporation were assigned a 64.27% adverse-facts-available rate after failing to respond to Commerce's quantity-and-value questionnaire. Commerce aligned the CVD final determination with the companion antidumping final determination. 2024 US imports of the subject product totaled roughly $5.6 million (2.07 million kg).

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/Tech/MH/N-P-K/2025/Combined-Bid) for a road-construction contract in Maharashtra state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 7,343.33 crore (~USD 880m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 7 August 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/Tech/MH/N-P-K/2025/Pkg-II) for a road-construction contract in Maharashtra state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 3,177.66 crore (~USD 380m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 7 August 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal for a road-construction contract in Maharashtra state, part of the same N-P-K tender batch as the Pkg-1, Pkg-II, and Combined-Bid filings, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 3,653.09 crore (~USD 440m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 7 August 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. NHAI/Tech/MH/N-P-K/2025/Pkg-1) for a road-construction contract in Maharashtra state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 4,256.67 crore (~USD 510m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 7 August 2025.

The US Department of Defense announced a USD 10 million Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III award to Elk Creek Resources Corp (ECRC), a subsidiary of NioCorp Developments Ltd, to advance a domestic "mine-to-master-alloy" scandium supply chain at the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in Nebraska. The funds support feasibility-level engineering, additional reserve drilling and updated cost estimates for the polymetallic deposit (scandium, niobium, titanium and rare earths), and support integration of aluminum-scandium master alloy into aerospace platforms alongside a defense prime contractor. The award notes the US has not mined scandium since 1969 and that current global scandium supply is overwhelmingly foreign-sourced, with China the dominant producer.

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Armenia, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, approved the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for Promoting Exports of the Republic of Armenia and its accompanying Action Plan on 31 July 2025. The Strategy targets a 1.7-fold increase in total Armenian exports to USD 16.9 billion by 2030 (USD 10.3 billion services + USD 6.6 billion goods), with an implementation envelope of approximately AMD 98 billion (~USD 250 million). It designates critical minerals (copper-molybdenum concentrates, gold, antimony, emerging rare-earth-element zones), IT and tech services, agri-processing, and green-transition equipment as priority export categories, and operationalises Armenia's ongoing reorientation of export geography away from Russia/EAEU toward EU, US, Gulf, and Asian markets.

NICDIT Zaheerabad Industrial Smart City Limited (NICZISCL) — the special-purpose vehicle developing the Zaheerabad Industrial Smart City node of the Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial Corridor in Telangana — published a tender for infrastructure works valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,206 crore (~USD 145m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier bid-evaluation preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, across civil-engineering, general-construction, and water-distribution categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 28 July 2025.

The Bihar State Road Development Corporation issued a Request for Proposal on 25 July 2025 for a road-construction project in Bihar. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 25 July 2025; contract value and tender reference number are not disclosed in publicly accessible sources.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) committed AUD 44.9 million to Calix Limited to build a demonstration plant for its Zero Emissions Steel Technology (ZESTY), targeting up to 30,000 tonnes per year of low-carbon hydrogen direct reduced iron (HDRI) and hot briquetted iron (HBI) using renewable electricity and hydrogen instead of coking coal. The funding builds on prior ARENA-funded engineering studies and also supports early-stage engineering for a larger commercial-scale ZESTY plant, positioning low-emissions iron/steel as a strategic priority industry for Australia.

India and the UK signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on 24 July 2025 in Chequers, with Prime Ministers Modi and Starmer presiding. The agreement grants duty-free access on 99% of Indian exports to the UK (textiles, apparel, footwear, auto components, engineering goods and chemicals), and reduces Indian tariffs on UK goods covering ~90% of tariff lines: Scotch whisky duties drop from 150% to 75% on day one and taper to 40% over ten years; high-end UK car tariffs fall from ~110% to 10% under a quota; UK MFN access on a wide industrial-goods envelope. A Double Contribution Convention exempts Indian secondees from UK National Insurance for three years. Bilateral trade currently ~£42 bn / USD 56 bn per year, with the parties targeting doubling by 2030. UK ratification under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (CRaG) ran from January 2026, with the 21-sitting-day scrutiny period concluding 5 March 2026. Entry into force was delayed from the originally targeted May 2026 date and is now confirmed for July 15, 2026 following a UK Prime Minister announcement at the G7 Évian summit sidelines on June 17, 2026. The confirmed EIF covers 64% of UK exports (£1.9bn) duty-free immediately, with an additional £25.5bn/year in projected additional bilateral trade.

The National Highways Authority of India's Bihar Division issued a Request for Proposal (reference BRDIV-20021/11/2025-Bihar Division) on 23 July 2025 for a road-construction project in Bihar valued at INR 1,981.72 crore (approx. USD 237 million). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 23 July 2025; the specific road/route name is not disclosed in publicly accessible sources.

The National Highways Authority of India's Bihar Division issued a Request for Proposal (reference PROJ/34/2025-Bihar Division) on 22 July 2025 for a road-construction project in Bihar valued at INR 2,243.16 crore (approx. USD 269 million). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 22 July 2025; the specific road/route name is not disclosed in publicly accessible sources.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MPDIV-21017/37/2025-MP Division) for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,237.07 crore (~USD 149m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and supporting-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 22 July 2025.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MPDIV-21017/38/2025-MP Division) for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,623.51 crore (~USD 196m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and supporting-services categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 22 July 2025.

Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited (B-SMILE), a Karnataka state-government special-purpose vehicle, issued a Notice Inviting Tender (ref. B-SMILE/SE/TEND/03/2025-26, dated 14 July 2025) for an International Competitive Bidding, single-stage two-cover road construction contract valued at INR 8,770 crore, embedding a domestic-supplier local-content preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Bidding was conducted through the Karnataka government's e-procurement (KPP) portal, with tenders due 2 September 2025. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 15 July 2025; the exact preference-margin percentage and full NIT text sit behind GTA's account-gated detail view.

NHPC Limited (a Government of India Navratna enterprise) tendered Lot-3 civil and hydro-mechanical works — main dam including coffer dam — for the 2,880 MW Dibang Multipurpose Project in Lower Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh, a strategic hydropower and flood- control project near the India-China border. Global Trade Alert records the tender's estimated value at INR 17,069 crore (~USD 2.05 billion), announced/implemented 15 July 2025. Per NHPC's standing compliance with the Government of India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, bidders must certify minimum local content, giving Class-I local suppliers a bid-evaluation preference margin across the tendered categories.

The New Development Bank (NDB) Board of Directors approved a RMB 1.448 billion (~CNY 1.45 billion, ~USD 200 million) sovereign loan to the People's Republic of China on 14 July 2025 to finance the Shanxi Taiyuan Wusu Zero-Carbon Airport Project. The project will convert Taiyuan Wusu International Airport into China's first zero-carbon airport via over 100 MW of installed solar capacity, a pilot PV-Energy Storage-Direct Current-Flexible Loads (PEDF) system, and 100% renewable-based heating and cooling — a first among China's regional hub-scale airports. Shanxi Aviation Industry New Energy Company (SAINE), a joint venture of Shanxi Aviation Industry Group (SAIG) and two government-owned geological-engineering and industrial-construction enterprises, will implement the project between 2025 and 2029. NDB below-market development-bank pricing functions as an indirect state-adjacent subsidy for the build-out.

On 14 July 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his capacity as Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, signed four gazette notifications designating IFC Colombo 1 (Private) Limited, Ceylon Real Estate Holdings (Private) Limited, Clothespin Management and Development (Private) Limited, and ICC Port City (Private) Limited as "Primary Businesses of Strategic Importance" inside the Colombo Port City Special Economic Zone, established under the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Act No. 21 of 2021. Cumulatively the four projects represent approximately USD 1.2 billion of inbound FDI commitments, with IFC Colombo 1 (a China Harbour Engineering Company / CHEC Port City Colombo subsidiary) alone committing USD 142.71 million and Ceylon Real Estate Holdings (a Browns Investments PLC subsidiary) committing a real-estate complex on 30,629.92 sqm. The original gazettes granted 35-year exemptions under the Inland Revenue Act (running to 13 July 2060) and ~25-year exemptions under the Value Added Tax Act, Finance Acts (Nos. 11 of 2002 and 5 of 2005), Excise (Special Provisions) Act, Customs Ordinance, Ports and Airports Development Levy Act and Sri Lanka Export Development Act, conditional on each designee executing its land-lease agreement with the Commission within six months of gazette publication.

Pakistan's Ministry of Industries and Production, through the Engineering Development Board, launched the National Electric Vehicle (NEV) Policy 2025-2030 on 19 June 2025. The policy targets 30% of all new vehicles sold in Pakistan to be electric by 2030 and allocates an initial subsidy of PKR 9 billion for FY2025-26 to facilitate 116,053 electric two-wheelers and 3,171 electric three-wheelers (with 25% of the subsidy reserved for women applicants), alongside a build-out of 40 EV charging stations on motorways at 105 km average spacing. The policy is Pakistan's first horizontal EV industrial-policy framework, projected by government to save 2.07 billion litres of fuel annually and roughly USD 1 billion in foreign-exchange outflows on petroleum imports.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) committed AUD 19.8 million to the NeoSmelt joint venture to fund a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a direct reduced iron-electric smelting furnace (DRI-ESF) pilot plant at Kwinana, Western Australia, aimed at proving Pilbara iron ore can be converted into lower-carbon iron without a coking-coal blast furnace. The consortium, founded by BlueScope, BHP and Rio Tinto, welcomed Woodside Energy and Mitsui Iron Ore Development as new equal-equity participants alongside the grant announcement. Total project cost is AUD 48.85 million, with the study running from May 2025 to August 2026 ahead of a targeted final investment decision.

India's Ministry of Road Transport & Highways issued a Request for Proposal for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 17 June 2025; no contract value or tender reference number is disclosed on the public (non-account-gated) portion of GTA's listing.

India's Ministry of Road Transport & Highways issued a Request for Proposal for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a road project in Madhya Pradesh state, valued at INR 397 crore (~USD 47.5 million). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 10 June 2025; the exact preference-margin percentage and tender reference number sit behind GTA's account-gated view.

NHAI issued a Request for Proposal for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a road project in Madhya Pradesh state. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering, general-construction, and engineering-services categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 10 June 2025; no contract value or tender reference number is disclosed on the public (non-account-gated) portion of GTA's listing.

Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue gazetted SRO 195-Ain/2025/17/Customs on 29 May 2025, amending an earlier motor-manufacturing SRO (163-Ain/2024) to reduce import duties on additional raw materials and components used in domestic electric motor and electric-motor-parts manufacturing, effective 2 June 2025. The measure lowers input costs for local electric motor producers as part of NBR's ongoing tariff-concession scheme for domestic light-engineering manufacturing.

MOFCOM Announcement No. 25 of 2025 (18 May 2025) issued the final ruling in the anti-dumping investigation into copolyacetal (共聚聚甲醛, polyoxymethylene copolymer/POM copolymer, an engineering plastic used in automotive parts, electronics and precision components) imported from the United States, the EU, Taiwan and Japan, initiated 19 May 2024 (MOFCOM Announcement No. 18 of 2024). MOFCOM found dumping, material injury to the domestic industry and a causal link, and imposed anti-dumping duties effective 19 May 2025 for a five-year term under Article 38 of China's Anti-Dumping Regulations. Rates: 74.9% for US companies; 42.0% for EU companies; 3.8%-32.6% for Taiwan-region companies (named companies at the low end, "other Taiwan companies" at 32.6%); 33.9%-43.7% for Japanese companies (named companies at the low end, "other Japanese companies" at 35.5% per the 2026 succession notice). On 20 August 2026, MOFCOM Announcement No. 36 of 2026 ruled that Daicel Corporation succeeds to Polyplastics Co., Ltd.'s 35.5% rate and Daicel HPP Taiwan Co., Ltd. succeeds to Polyplastics Taiwan Co.'s 3.8% rate, both following corporate reorganizations, effective 21 August 2026 (filed below as an amendment).

Nepal's Federal Parliament ratified an omnibus statute on 20–31 March 2025 converting the 13 January 2025 Presidential Ordinance into permanent law, comprehensively amending 11 Acts including the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act 2019 (FITTA), the Industrial Enterprises Act 2020, and the Special Economic Zone Act 2016. The statute expands the scope of permissible foreign investment (replacing the positive-list "any industry" with the broader "any industry other than those in the Schedule"), broadens the "technology transfer" definition to include management/technical services, IT, marketing, finance, engineering, and digital-data-processing, mandates prior Department of Industry approval for foreign investor equity transfers to domestic parties, and for the first time authorises Nepali companies to invest abroad using income earned from technology exports. Repatriation approval windows are compressed to 7 days (15 days for appeals), and foreign investment in Specialised Investment Fund (SIF) units is enabled via SEBON approval.