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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.
The European Investment Bank signed a EUR 70 million loan with German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems GmbH, financing the company's 2025-2028 research, development and innovation programme in unmanned aerial systems. The EIB loan sits inside a EUR 150 million total financing package alongside Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank and KfW, publicly announced by the EIB on 12 February 2026. It is the EIB's second direct investment in the company, following a EUR 10 million commitment in June 2021, and is framed explicitly around building European defence and technological-sovereignty capacity in unmanned systems.
China's MOFCOM Unreliable Entity List Working Mechanism designated 11 US drone-sector companies on 4 April 2025 — Skydio Inc., BRINC Drones Inc., Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc., Insitu Inc., Red Six Solutions LLC, SYNEXXUS Inc., Firestorm Labs Inc., HavocAI, Neros Technologies, Domo Tactical Communications LLC, and Rapid Flight LLC — citing military-technology cooperation with Taiwan in violation of China's One-China principle. Designations prohibit the 11 firms from import/export activity related to China, bar new investments in China, and restrict senior-executive entry. Issued on the same date as the MOFCOM heavy rare-earth export-licensing measure, the designations formed a paired retaliation package responding to the 2 April 2025 US "Liberation Day" reciprocal-tariff escalation. On 15 May 2025 MOFCOM suspended the UEL restrictions on all 11 companies for 90 days in line with the US-China Geneva tariff truce.
The Aizsardzības industrijas likums (Defence Industry Law), adopted by the Saeima on 27 March 2024 and published in Latvijas Vēstnesis No. 70 on 10 April 2024, is Latvia's first standalone statute codifying state-support instruments for domestically registered defence-industrial-base firms. The law establishes a strategic-partnership agreement framework between the Ministry of Defence and Latvian-registered defence-tech manufacturers (including the Latvian drone-tech cluster — Atlas Aerospace, UAV Factory, Edge Autonomy Latvia), defines continuity-of-operations and supply-security obligations for strategic-partner firms, and provides a procurement-preference channel for Latvian-registered defence suppliers in MoD and State Defence Logistics and Procurement Centre contracting. The law also streamlines export-licence processing for qualified Latvian strategic- goods exporters and aligns state-support measures with EU Treaty Article 346 defence-exemption and EU European Defence Fund / EDIRPA co-financing rules.