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The Government of Maharashtra, Industries Department, notified the Maharashtra Industry, Investment, and Services Policy-2025 on 31 December 2025, valid for five years and superseding the prior Maharashtra Industrial Policy 2019. The umbrella state-level instrument supports Maharashtra's "trillion-dollar economy by 2030" and "Developed Maharashtra 2047" vision with targets of ₹70.5 lakh crore (~USD 850 bn) cumulative investment, 50 lakh (5 million) jobs across manufacturing and services, and expansion of industry's share of Gross State Value Added to 30%. It is Maharashtra's first-ever combined industry + services + investment-promotion framework (prior policies were industry-only), establishes the unified "Invest Maharashtra" platform and revamped MAITRI 2.0 portal (125+ services, AI investor support, blockchain document verification), and empowers a Cabinet Sub-Committee under the Chief Minister to sanction bespoke customised-package incentives for Mega and Ultra-Mega Projects above the ₹500 crore threshold.

On 31 December 2025, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) issued Decision No. 93483 raising the mandatory Saudization (localization) quota for engineering professions in the private and non-profit sectors from 25% to 30%, alongside a minimum-wage floor increase from SAR 7,000 to SAR 8,000 for qualifying Saudi hires. The decision covers 46 designated engineering professions (architect, power generation engineer, industrial engineer, electronics engineer, vehicle engineer, marine engineer, health engineer, and others) at establishments employing five or more workers in those roles, and requires professional accreditation from the Saudi Council of Engineers. Implementation began six months after issuance, on 30 June 2026, to give employers a compliance runway.

Decree 353/2025/NĐ-CP is the principal implementing instrument of Vietnam's Law on Digital Technology Industry (Law No. 71/2025/QH15), effective 1 January 2026 — the same date as the parent statute. The decree's five chapters and 36 articles operationalise three pillars: (i) a comprehensive State-support and preferential-incentive framework for products, services, and infrastructure across the semiconductor, AI, cloud, fintech, and e-commerce sectors; (ii) a high-quality-human-resources development framework covering training funds, scholarship schemes, and foreign-expert visa fast-tracks; and (iii) Vietnam's first statutory innovation sandbox, allowing organisations to deploy new digital products and business models under time- and scope-limited regulatory carve-outs where current law has not kept pace with practice.

On 24 December 2025 China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) jointly issued Order No. 37, the Catalogue for Encouraging Foreign Investment in Industries (2025 Edition), effective 1 February 2026 and replacing the 2022 Edition (issued 26 October 2022). The revised catalogue expands to 1,679 total entries — a net increase of 205 and 303 modified relative to 2022 — split between a nationwide catalogue (619 entries, +100, 131 modified) and a regional catalogue for central/western China, the northeast, and Hainan (1,060 entries, +105, 172 modified). Foreign investors in listed sectors qualify for tariff and tax preferences on imported equipment and other incentives under China's foreign-investment regime. The revision prioritises advanced manufacturing and modern services and steers new entries toward inland and border provinces.

Uruguay's Poder Ejecutivo promulgated Decreto Nº 329/025 on 23 December 2025, comprehensively overhauling the general investment-promotion framework established under Ley Nº 16.906 (1998) and replacing Decreto 268/020. Administered by COMAP under the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, the decree entered into force on 1 February 2026 with a coexistence transition period through 30 April 2026 and became the sole operative instrument from 1 May 2026. The decree extends project timelines, creates tiered investment categories (including a mega-investment tier providing up to 25-year IRAE exemptions), expands incentives for SMEs, and explicitly calibrates the scoring matrix toward decentralisation, innovation, export capacity, and strategic sectors including data-centers, green hydrogen, sustainable forestry-pulp, agtech, and global business services.

On 16 December 2025, Public Services and Procurement Canada implemented the Buy Canadian Procurement Policy Framework, bringing into force (a) the Policy on Prioritizing Canadian Materials in Federal Procurement, which mandates use of Canadian steel, wood products and aluminum in federal defence and construction contracts valued at CAD 25 million or more that contain at least CAD 250,000 of those materials where Canadian supply exists, and (b) the Policy on Prioritizing Canadian Suppliers and Canadian Content in Strategic Federal Procurements, which applies a bid-price discount margin favouring Canadian suppliers in procurements tied to Canada's economic, industrial and innovation priorities. Complementary amendments to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Procurement Inquiry Regulations, effective 15 December 2025, remove CITT jurisdiction to review procurement measures that restrict participation to, or favour, Canadian suppliers, goods, services, materials or subcontractors. The framework applies immediately to procurements of CAD 25 million and above and is scheduled to expand to contracts of CAD 5 million and above by spring 2026. Budget 2025 allocates roughly CAD 186 million over five years to implement the framework, including CAD 79.9 million for a new Small and Medium Business Procurement Program.

On 9 December 2025, the Qatar Investment Authority's newly formed AI subsidiary Qai and Brookfield Asset Management announced a USD 20 billion strategic investment partnership to develop AI infrastructure, including fully integrated compute facilities, in Qatar and select international markets. The venture is a cornerstone of Brookfield's global AI infrastructure program (via the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund, BAIIF), which targets mobilising up to USD 100 billion globally, and is positioned as advancing Qatar National Vision 2030's push to become a Middle East AI-services hub. It is state-backed capital deployment (sovereign wealth fund subsidiary) rather than a regulatory or trade-control measure, and Global Trade Alert classifies it as an unspecified state-aid intervention.

The Chongqing Municipal Government General Office issued Notice 渝府办发〔2025〕59号 on 2025-12-06, promulgating an "Implementation Plan for Strengthening Fiscal-Financial Linkage to Support High-Quality Economic Development." The plan builds a three-tier (municipal-district-enterprise) government financing-guarantee system, capping average guarantee fees below 1% and prioritising small/micro enterprises and "three-rural" (agriculture, rural areas, farmers) borrowers. It layers in specialised guarantee products across five priority financial verticals: science and technology innovation (innovation-point loans, flow loans, linked loans), green finance (carbon-reduction and transition loans), inclusive finance (emergency bridge loans, government-procurement financing), elder-care services, and manufacturing (technology- renovation guarantees, supply-chain finance products).

On 25 November 2025 China's National Space Administration (CNSA) released a two-year action plan — covering 2025 through 2027 — setting out 22 key measures to formalise and accelerate the development of China's commercial space sector. The plan transitions commercial space policy from a "nurturing" phase (subsidy-pull, loosely regulated) to a "standards-pull / high-quality development" phase, opening national aerospace R&D programmes and launch-infrastructure slots to private operators, establishing a national commercial space development fund, directing government procurement toward commercial launch vehicles and satellites, and unifying previously fragmented provincial regulatory standards. The plan structurally mirrors NASA's COTS/Commercial Crew model and sets commercial operators on course to expand China's ~18% private-firm share of an estimated US$15bn-per-year domestic launch market toward the 2027 horizon aligned with the 15th Five-Year Plan.

NHAI's Project Implementation Unit (PIU) Kolhapur issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MHDIV-20016/156/2025-PIU Kolhapur/294563) for a road-construction contract in Maharashtra state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 749.33 crore (~USD 90m). 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 3 November 2025.

On 26 October 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, on the margins of the ASEAN Summit, President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim signed two complementary instruments structuring the US-Malaysia economic relationship: (i) a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Cooperation to Diversify Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains and Promote Investments, establishing quarterly working-level meetings on bilateral exploration, extraction, processing, refining, manufacturing, and recycling, plus shared commitments on streamlined permitting and protection from non-market policies; and (ii) a legally-binding Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) covering goods (chemicals, machinery, electrical equipment, metals, vehicles, dairy, horticulture, poultry, pork, rice, fuel ethanol), digital trade, services, and investment. Under the ART, the United States maintains a 19% reciprocal tariff on Malaysian imports (with carve-outs for products receiving 0% under EO 14346) while Malaysia commits to refrain from banning or quota-restricting exports of critical minerals or rare earths to the US, ensure no restrictions on rare-earth magnet sales to US firms, and grant extended operating licenses to US partners. The ART enters into force 60 days after exchange of notifications of completed domestic procedures.

Zambia's Statutory Instrument No. 68 of 2025 under the Geological and Minerals Development Act 2022 establishes the first binding procurement-quota local-content regime in the Zambian copper-cobalt mining sector, entering into force 1 January 2026. Mining and mining-related companies must reserve a minimum 20% of their annual procurement budget for Zambian-owned or citizen-empowered suppliers of core mining goods and services, escalating to 25% in year two and 35% in year three, targeting 40% within five years. All non-core ancillary services (catering, security, haulage, cleaning, gardening) are reserved exclusively for Zambian-owned companies. The instrument operationalises the Minerals Regulation Commission created under the 2024 MRC Act and completes the ZM resource-nationalism statute stack.

New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment published the 5th edition of the Government Procurement Rules, effective 1 December 2025, replacing the prior "broader outcomes" framework with a new Rule 8 mandating that agencies "seek economic benefits to New Zealand" in every procurement above the standard thresholds (NZD 100,000 for goods/services and refurbishment works; NZD 9 million for construction works). Agencies must set out their economic-benefit expectations in the Notice of Procurement, apply a minimum 10% evaluation weighting to economic-benefit criteria, write delivery commitments into contracts, and monitor and report on delivery. Global Trade Alert logs the measure as a "certainly harmful" discriminatory public-procurement, nes intervention given its effect of favouring New Zealand-based suppliers over foreign bidders. The 4th edition rules continue to apply to contracts entered before 1 December 2025, including existing All-of-Government panels and syndicated contracts.

NHAI's Madhya Pradesh Division issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MPDIV-21/26/2025-MP Division) for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,023.14 crore (~USD 123m). 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 8 October 2025.

NHAI's Madhya Pradesh Division issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MPDIV-21/25/2025-MP Division) for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 952.42 crore (~USD 114m). 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 8 October 2025.

NHAI's Madhya Pradesh Division issued a Request for Proposal (ref. MPDIV-21015/17/2025-MP Division) for a road-construction contract in Madhya Pradesh state, valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 706.04 crore (~USD 85m). 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 8 October 2025.

East Central Railway (a zonal railway under India's Ministry of Railways) issued a Notice Inviting Tender on 4 October 2025 for a civil-engineering works package valued at approximately INR 2,998.93 crore. As with the parallel NHAI/NHIDCL/UPMRC tender filings on this register, the NIT embeds a domestic-supplier local-content requirement and bid-evaluation purchase-preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving Class-I local suppliers an advantage in the civil-engineering, general-construction, and site-preparation-services categories. Global Trade Alert logs this as a public-procurement preference-margin intervention.

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.

Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), a Coal India subsidiary under India's Ministry of Coal, issued a tender on 1 October 2025 for removal of overburden material and extraction of coal at its Dhoptala mine (Maharashtra), valued at approximately INR 1,324.20 crore. As with the parallel NHAI/NHIDCL/UPMRC/East Central Railway tender filings on this register, the tender embeds a domestic- supplier local-content requirement and bid-evaluation purchase- preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Global Trade Alert logs this as a public-procurement preference-margin intervention.

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.

Loi n° 2025-16 du 27 septembre 2025 portant Code des Investissements, published in Journal Officiel du Sénégal n° 7853 du 2 octobre 2025, is the first major horizontal recodification of Senegal's investment framework in 21 years, fully repealing and replacing the Loi n° 2004-06 du 6 février 2004 portant Code des Investissements. Enacted under the Faye-Sonko administration as part of the September 2025 modernisation package (companion to the parallel General Tax Code recodification), the law introduces a digital single-window with a 10-business-day processing guarantee, territorial fiscal and customs stability regimes differentiated by region (3 years for Dakar/Thiès, 5 years for other regions), expanded eligible-sector coverage, and statutory local-content integration mandates to strengthen SME participation. Existing investor protections — national treatment, free capital transfer, and nationalisation/expropriation guarantees — are maintained and modernised. The law structurally aligns the investment framework with Vision Sénégal 2050 sustainable-development requirements.

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.

On 20 September 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his capacity as Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, gazetted the "Colombo Port City (Guidelines on the Grant of Exemptions or Incentives to Businesses of Strategic Importance) Regulations, No. 1 of 2025" in Extraordinary Gazette No. 2454/62 under the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Act, No. 11 of 2021. The new framework materially compresses the SEZ's headline tax-incentive envelope: Primary BSI awards fall from a 25-year full Inland Revenue Act exemption plus a 10-year half-rate follow-on to a single one-time exemption of up to 15 years, and Secondary BSIs lose the prior 25-year full-or-partial relief in favour of a concessionary 7.5% corporate-income-tax rate for four years from commercial operation. VAT exemption is not carried over into the new framework. The regulation is effective from publication, runs for five years, and supersedes Regulation No. 02 of 2023.

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.

Tanzania's Minister for Minerals issued the Mining (Local Content) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 via Government Notice No. 563 of 2025, published on 12 September 2025 and in force on the same day with no grace period. The amendment overhauls the Mining (Local Content) Regulations, 2018 (GN No. 3 of 2018) and introduces a new Regulation 13A empowering the Tanzania Mining Commission to publish — in the Gazette, on its website, and in nationwide media — a list of "reserved" goods and services that may be supplied only by an Indigenous Tanzanian Company (ITC) that is 100% Tanzanian-owned (no joint venture permitted in those reserved categories). For non-reserved categories, non- indigenous suppliers must form a JV with an ITC operating in the same line of business in which the ITC holds at least 20% equity, with the JV agreement subject to prior Mining Commission approval. Sole-sourced contracts above ~USD 10,000 must be notified to the Commission, and Local Content Plans must now include Banking Services and Procurement sub-plans, channelling mining-related financial transactions through Tanzanian-registered banks.

Indonesia's Ministry of Industry issued Permenperin No. 35 of 2025 on 11 September 2025, signed by Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, on the Provisions and Procedures for Certification of Local Content Level (TKDN) and Company Benefit Weight (BMP). The regulation takes effect on 11 December 2025 and revokes Permenperin No. 16/2011 along with Permenperin No. 46/2022. It unifies TKDN and BMP into a single certificate, standardises a 5-year validity period (previously 3 years), expands scope to industrial services and mixed goods-service activities (e.g. EPC), introduces a 20-percentage-point bonus for R&D-intensive / Industry-4.0 producers, and accelerates issuance via accredited Independent Verification Institutes (Lembaga Verifikasi Independen / LVI) to roughly 10 working days for general industry and 4 working days for SMEs (IKM).

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.

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.

South Korea's National Assembly passed an amendment to the Korea Development Bank (KDB) Act on 2025-08-27 (428th session, 3rd plenary sitting, 164-1 with 164 votes in favour of 165 cast), raising KDB's statutory capital ceiling from KRW 30 trillion to KRW 45 trillion and creating a new "Advanced Strategic Industry Fund" inside KDB. The fund is capitalised at KRW 50 trillion or more over five years via low-rate government-guaranteed bonds and is earmarked for the ten officially designated advanced strategic industries (AI, semiconductors, bio/vaccines, defense, robotics, hydrogen, secondary batteries, displays, future mobility) via cheap loans and equity investment. KDB intends to use the fund as seed capital for a wider "National Growth Fund" that blends in private and pension capital to reach KRW 100 trillion+ in total strategic-industry financing over five years.

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.

India's Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), a central public-sector power utility under the Ministry of Power, issued a tender (ref. 2025_DVC_245419_1) for the lifting and transport of two million tonnes of coal 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 in the land-transport/logistics services category. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 21 August 2025; the 2-million-tonne quantity is disclosed by GTA, but the underlying contract value sits behind GTA's account-gated view and was not independently confirmed.

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.

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.

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 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.

On 31 July 2025 the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government issued Yue Ban Han [2025] No. 231, promulgating 21 policy measures across seven categories to accelerate commercial space development in the province through 2028 (published 19 August 2025; in force through 31 December 2028). The package funds satellite-constellation and ground-station buildout (10% capex subsidy, capped at RMB 2m per node and RMB 10m per firm annually), rocket/satellite equipment subsidies (up to 30% of unit sale price, capped at RMB 7-9m per set depending on catalog tier), up to 50% matching funds for qualifying national R&D programs, a 100% pre-tax R&D expense deduction, industrial-park investment rebates (up to 2% of new fixed-asset investment, paid to municipal governments), government procurement preference for demonstration applications, and dedicated investment funds and insurance-premium subsidies for launch and satellite-operator risk. It implements an earlier provincial action plan (2024-2028) and predates China's national CNSA commercial-space action plan (25 November 2025) by four months.

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.

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.

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.

On 14 July 2025, Public Services and Procurement Canada implemented the Interim Policy on Reciprocal Procurement, covering all new non-defence federal procurements valued at CAD 10,000 or above. Suppliers from countries that have no government- procurement trade obligations with Canada lose access to the federal procurement market; suppliers from countries with a relevant trade agreement retain access only to the extent their agreement provides. Procurements where at least 51% of estimated value is Defence Goods or Defence Services are excluded. Existing Supply Arrangements are grandfathered until their next renewal, with a hard deadline of 14 July 2026 for all such arrangements to comply. The policy was announced as a response to trading partners — chiefly the United States — that do not offer Canadian suppliers reciprocal access to their own procurement markets.