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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 September 4, 2026, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Istanbul-based Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi (Golden Global Bank) and two affiliates — Golden Global Portfoy Yonetimi Anonim Sirketi and Golden Global Varlik Kiralama Anonim Sirketi — to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List under Iran sanctions authorities. Treasury said the bank facilitated tens of millions of dollars in transactions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), giving the Iranian regime correspondent banking access to move funds internationally through the Turkish financial system. OFAC concurrently issued Iran General License CC, authorizing a wind-down of transactions involving the newly blocked persons. The Federal Register formally published GL CC — alongside GL DD, a separate Iran civil-aviation wind-down license issued September 8 — on September 11, 2026.
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.
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.
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 26 May 2026 the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), part of HM Treasury, imposed a £1,000,920.59 monetary penalty on Sabre Global Technologies Limited (SGTL), a UK-registered travel-technology firm, for repeated breaches of UK financial sanctions. SGTL continued to provide Russian carrier Ural Airlines access to its Global Distribution System (GDS) service for seven months after Ural Airlines was designated by the UK in May 2022, and during July–August 2022 actively explored routing payments through a US bank account to avoid detection by its UK bank — the conduct that makes this the **first OFSI penalty issued for a circumvention offence**. At £1,000,921 this is also OFSI's **largest financial-sanctions penalty since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine**, surpassing the prior record (HSF £465k).
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy extended its ban on the export of petroleum products — including gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, gasoil, toluene, xylene, bitumen, and LPG — for a further six months from May 21 to November 21, 2026. The restrictions apply to exports by road and rail, including shipments to fellow EAEU member states. The measure continues a rolling domestic-price-stabilisation regime that has been renewed since at least 2024; the prior extension ran to May 20, 2026.
On 2026-02-06 Chongqing municipality launched the "Aerospace-Finance (Chongqing) Aerospace Information Low-Altitude Economy Industry Fund" (航天工融（重庆）空天信息低空经济产业基金), a CNY 2 billion (~USD 288 million) state-guided investment vehicle jointly capitalized by ICBC Investment (工银投资), Aerospace Investment Holdings (航天投资控股), the Chongqing Industrial Mother Fund, and the Liangjiang Fund. It follows a "government guidance + market-based operation" model and is directed at the aerospace-information (satellite/space-tech) and low-altitude economy (drones, eVTOL, general aviation) sectors, building on Chongqing's November 2025 low-altitude-economy state-aid package.
NIB, the multilateral development bank owned by the eight Nordic and Baltic member states, signed a EUR 11.4 million 10-year loan with Metrosert AS, Estonia's national testing, calibration and certification body, to finance a new Drone Technology Unit within Metrosert's Applied Research Centre in Tallinn. The unit will house nine laboratories to develop, validate and industrialise unmanned aerial, ground and maritime systems, with most planned activity explicitly defence-related, covering unmanned aviation, communications, navigation, flight physics and hardware security. NIB financing at preferential development-bank rates functions as a below-market state-backed subsidy to a strategic dual-use research facility; the unit is targeted to be fully operational by summer 2027 as part of a EUR 42.9 million total Applied Research Centre build-out.
On 16 January 2026 the Yunnan Provincial People's Government issued Yunzhengfa [2026] No. 2, a package of 34 policy measures (effective through 2030) to support high-quality development of the Central Yunnan New Area (滇中新区), a national-level new area centred on Kunming. The measures span industrial upgrading, innovation, opening-up and fiscal/land support: transformation of traditional petrochemical and metallurgy industries into "hundred-billion-yuan" clusters, development of semiconductor materials/equipment, new-energy battery materials and non-ferrous/rare-precious-metals manufacturing using Yunnan's mineral and plateau-agriculture resources, and cultivation of low-altitude economy, biomanufacturing and new-materials industries. It also seeks to establish a South/Southeast Asia aircraft-delivery centre and one-stop aviation-maintenance base in the new area.