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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 18 September 2026 the President signed a proclamation extending Proclamation 10973 (originally issued 19 September 2025), which conditions issuance/entry on new H-1B specialty-occupation petitions on a $100,000 payment by the sponsoring employer, for a further 12 months through 21 September 2027 (exceptions remain at DHS Secretary discretion for national-interest cases). Alongside it the President signed a companion executive order, "Enhancing Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program," directing DHS, State and Labor to coordinate review of H-1B petitions and consult Commerce, Education and SBA on employment data, with heightened scrutiny for employers with recent or planned US-worker layoffs. The accompanying fact sheet cites a 92% drop in H-1B registrations by the largest IT-outsourcing firms (24,946 to 2,055) and a ~97% decrease in consular H-1B processing requests since the original 2025 proclamation. ## Severity basis Quant anchor from the primary source: $100,000 flat fee per covered H-1B petition, extended for a further 12-month term (through 2027-09-21); a measured 92% reduction in H-1B registrations by the largest IT-outsourcing filers (24,946 → 2,055) and a ~97% drop in consular H-1B processing requests attributed to the fee regime since its 2025 introduction. Severity 4/5: a binding, renewed cost barrier with a demonstrated order-of-magnitude effect on offshore-staffing-dependent filers, not a one-off or symbolic measure.
Paraguay promulgated Ley Nº 7547/2025 on 8 September 2025, comprehensively overhauling the maquila export-platform regime established by Ley Nº 1064/1997 after a 28-year run. The statute introduces a flat 1% tax on the higher of Paraguayan value-added or export-invoice value, a formal "service maquila" modality covering software, BPO, call centres, and digital processes for foreign markets, and a 20-year renewable benefit duration. The National Council of Maquila Export Industries (CNIME) is established as the supervisory authority; a 12-month transition period applies to existing programme holders.
Tunisia's foundational horizontal investment statute, adopted by the Assemblée des représentants du peuple on 17 September 2016 and promulgated by President Béji Caïd Essebsi on 30 September 2016 (JORT N° 82, 7 October 2016), replacing the 1993 Code d'incitations aux investissements after 23 years. The law enshrines freedom of investment for domestic and foreign investors (Article 4), creates the Instance Tunisienne de l'Investissement (TIA) as a single one-stop-shop for projects between TND 15–50 million, and establishes the Conseil Supérieur de l'Investissement chaired by the Head of Government. A tiered fiscal-incentive scheme via the Fonds Tunisien de l'Investissement (FTI) rewards regional-development location, job creation, and technology-transfer commitments. The law entered into force on 1 April 2017 per Article 27 transitional provisions; the negative-list approach defining activities subject to prior authorisation was operationalised by Décret gouvernemental n° 2018-417 of 11 May 2018.