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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.
China's Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 26 of 2026 on June 24, 2026, establishing a formal reporting and handling system for violations of export controls on strategic minerals and dual-use items, effective July 1, 2026. The mechanism opens two reporting channels — a dedicated hotline (010-12369) and an online portal (aqygzj.mofcom.gov.cn) — through which any organisation or individual may report suspected violations including unauthorised exports, circumvention via third-country re-routing, illegal technology transfers, and provision of services to sanctioned exporters. Anonymous reports are accepted; real-name reporters may qualify for monetary rewards; voluntary self-disclosure is treated as a mitigating factor in penalty determination. Service providers including freight forwarders and financial institutions face mandatory reporting obligations when they discover suspected violations in the course of business.
On 3 September 2025, OFAC announced a civil penalty settlement with Fracht FWO Inc. — a Houston, Texas-based freight forwarder and US subsidiary of Switzerland-headquartered Fracht AG — under which the company agreed to pay USD 1,610,775 to settle its potential civil liability for apparent violations of multiple OFAC sanctions programs. The violations arose from Fracht FWO's brokering of cargo shipments involving EMTRASUR, a wholly owned subsidiary of OFAC-designated Venezuelan state airline CONVIASA, on a Mexico-to-Argentina route on which Iranian crew members were subsequently discovered. Fracht self-initiated a voluntary disclosure to OFAC after learning of the Iranian crew involvement, triggering mitigating credit, and undertook extensive remedial compliance measures. The settlement resolves apparent violations of the Venezuela Sanctions Regulations (VSR), Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations (WMDPSR), Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations (GTSR), and Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR).