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On 27 December 2021 the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan adopted Law No. 86-VII ZRK "On Industrial Policy" (Закон Республики Казахстан "О промышленной политике"), the horizontal framework statute that defines and governs the full toolkit of state-support instruments available to industrial entities — subsidies, in-kind grants, special economic zone (SEZ) regimes, industrial zone regimes, offtake guarantees, public-procurement preferences, long-term tariff agreements, and the "single card of industrialization" monitoring framework. The law replaced the earlier 2014 industrial-and-innovative-development statute and consolidated previously dispersed authority for the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development (now Ministry of Industry and Construction) as the policy owner, with the Bank for Development of Kazakhstan (BDK / DBK) as the principal industrial- finance vehicle and Samruk-Kazyna and Tau-Ken Samruk as the state-equity vehicles. It is the enabling parent instrument under which all downstream Kazakh industrial-policy programmes (the 2023-12-28 REE Comprehensive Plan, the 2025-12-26 Subsoil Code amendments, the 18 October 2024 Investment Policy Concept until 2029, and the SEZ / industrial-zone regimes hosting Western FDI) operate. The statute has been amended eleven times between July 2022 and September 2025, including by Law 86-VIII ZRK of 21 May 2024 which revised Article 24 (state-support measures).

Turkey's Ministry of Trade amended the İhracı Kayda Bağlı Mallara İlişkin Tebliğ (İhracat: 2006/7) via two communiqués — Tebliğ İhracat 2021/8 (fertilizers, GTİP 3101–3105) and İhracat 2021/9 (sulphuric acid/oleum, GTİP 2807.00, and pure ammonia, GTİP 2814.10) — published in Official Gazette No. 31630 of 16 October 2021. The measure places these goods on the "goods whose export is subject to registration" list: exporters must register each shipment with the Istanbul Minerals and Metals Exporters' Association (İMMİB) before customs clearance, a monitoring/prioritisation gate intended to secure domestic fertilizer supply rather than an outright ban. Global Trade Alert logs the measure under its "export ban" category; the primary text is a registration requirement, not a prohibition, and this filing follows the primary text.

Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance published the Masterplan Rohstoffe 2030 on 8 October 2021 as the country's comprehensive national raw-materials strategy. The plan establishes a policy framework for securing Austria's primary and secondary mineral supply, aligning with EU Critical Raw Materials Act obligations, and promoting circular-economy principles to reduce supply-chain vulnerability. Annual Monitoringberichte (2024, 2025) track implementation progress against the plan's 2030 objectives across mining-permit frameworks, R&D priorities, and secondary-feedstock development.

The US Bureau of Industry and Security added five Xinjiang-based entities to the Entity List on June 24, 2021, citing their roles in human rights violations and forced labor against Uyghur, Kazakh, and other Muslim minority populations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The five entities — four major polysilicon and silicon producers plus the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) paramilitary body — are subject to a presumption-of- denial licensing policy for most items. Together the four polysilicon companies supplied a significant fraction of global polysilicon feedstock used in solar panel manufacturing.

The GCC Bureau of Technical Secretariat for Anti-Injurious Practices in International Trade (GCC-TSAIP) imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty of 33% on imports of aluminium alloy plates, sheets and strip (HS 7606.12.00 and 7606.92.00) originating in China, effective across all six GCC member states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman). The investigation was initiated 29 April 2020 and the definitive measure entered into force on 22 July 2021 (GAFT imposed date), with expiry on 21 July 2026. A sunset review was initiated on 21 April 2026; the duty remains in force pending its outcome.

Indonesia's Ministry of Trade issued Regulation (Permendag) No. 18 of 2021 on 1 April 2021, establishing an omnibus schedule of goods prohibited from export and goods prohibited from import. Global Trade Alert logs the measure as bundling an export ban and an import ban that took effect 19 November 2021, with tracked coverage spanning precious and semi-precious stones/metals, jewellery and related articles, and fertilizers/pesticides. The regulation consolidated and repealed several prior prohibited- goods instruments. It was later superseded by Permendag No. 47 of 2025.