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What they make, where they produce, the materials that matter — then what is coming, what it would do to the business, and the moves available. Sector: space satellite. Company profile →
Rocket Lab Corporation is a vertically integrated launch-vehicle and spacecraft manufacturer: the small-lift Electron and in-development medium-lift Neutron rockets (with the Rutherford and Archimedes engines), plus a Space Systems division that designs and builds satellite buses, components, and — via its 2022 acquisition of SolAero Technologies — space-grade solar cells.
Verbatim from the dossier's “What they do” section — sources on the company profile.
No production footprint is recorded in its dossier yet — its HQ country is 🇺🇸 United States, a registration fact, not a production or sales claim. We say so rather than guess.
Of everything in its products, we track the critical inputs — the materials whose supply is concentrated in few countries, policy-exposed, or hard to substitute — because those are the ones a single measure can move. Each carries its role in the product, quoted from the dossier's own exposure note.
Gallium, germanium, indium — bulk/structural component (solar cells). SolAero's space solar cells (30%+ efficient triple-junction) are grown (ZTJ line) on a germanium substrate with indium-gallium-phosphide (InGaP) and indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) junction layers — all three elements are functional semiconductor layers in every cell produced, not trace dopants. China restricts gallium and germanium exp…
Gallium, germanium, indium — bulk/structural component (solar cells). SolAero's space solar cells (30%+ efficient triple-junction) are grown (ZTJ line) on a germanium substrate with indium-gallium-phosphide (InGaP) and indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) junction layers — all three elements are functional semiconductor layers in every cell produced, not trace dopants. China restricts gallium and germanium exp…
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
Gallium, germanium, indium — bulk/structural component (solar cells). SolAero's space solar cells (30%+ efficient triple-junction) are grown (ZTJ line) on a germanium substrate with indium-gallium-phosphide (InGaP) and indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) junction layers — all three elements are functional semiconductor layers in every cell produced, not trace dopants. China restricts gallium and germanium exp…
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
The dossier also records the materials it investigated and rejected — the list above is narrowed deliberately, not cherry-picked. Its own words:
Scope. The non-critical remainder of the bill of materials — structural steel, polymers, glass and the like — is not tracked here because it is not supply-constrained: this section covers the constrained inputs, which is where policy risk concentrates, not a full bill of materials.
The top 5 are ranked mechanically — what the instrument does (its transmission class: an export ban is not a reporting duty), × how close to law (stage-derived likelihood band, never a probability) × how much of your tracked bill of materials it touches. Each unfolds as a chain: trigger → what it hits → the response the instrument actually calls for. A measure touching a material you produce can be an opportunity, not a threat.
JP · stage awaiting-signature → high likelihood · touches nickelchromium · flagged 29 Jun 2026, 99d pending
Japan's METI + MOF made an affirmative PRELIMINARY determination in an anti-dumping investigation (initiated 22 Jul 2025 on an application from Nippon Steel, Nippon Yakin Kogyo, NAS Stainless Steel Strip and Nippon Kinzoku) into nickel-added cold-rolled stainless steel coil, sheet and strip originating in the People's Republic of China and the separate customs territory of Taiwan (Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu); Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa indicated provisional duties of ~45% on Chinese product and ~21% on Taiwanese product, expected to take effect as soon as July 2026. On 19 Jun 2026 METI/MOF EXTENDED the investigation period by four months to 21 Nov 2026 (final determination pending). IPTM relevance: (1) a RARE Japan-issuer trade remedy — JP has ZERO trade-remedy actions on the register and seldom uses AD, so a Japanese AD wall is a notable issuer + instrument-bloc gap; (2) China/Taiwan-target on nickel-added stainless steel, a nickel+chromium chokepoint-adjacent material; re-prices a China/TW->Japan stainless flow into a major downstream manufacturing base; (3) parallels the active 2025-26 Asian steel-AD wave the register is now capturing (Thailand DFT aluminium-extrusions, Indonesia KADI HRC, Malaysia MITI galvanised steel).
source ↗Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
A duty raises the cost of the origins the measure names into Japan's market — a cost line on affected flows, not lost availability. Origins outside the measure's named targets are the route around it; the text above names the targets where its source does.
TZ · stage awaiting-signature → high likelihood · touches titaniumnickel · flagged 26 Jun 2026, 102d pending
TZ Finance Bill establishes the Mineral Research Fund capitalised at 10% of gross mineral revenue (~TZS 141 billion/yr at 2025 collection levels); amends the Income Tax Act to formally recognise tax exemptions granted under individual mining Framework Agreements and introduces standard operating procedures — reduces discretionary government risk for large mining investors (Panda Hill niobium, graphite juniors, Buzwagi gold); parallel VAT amendments give equivalent statutory certainty for VAT exemptions; taken together, the bill moves Tanzania from discretionary tax administration toward a rule-of-law-based investor regime for all critical-mineral projects; budget targets Tanzania for top-4 niobium producer status (Panda Hill DA already signed March 24, 2026) and 50% geophysical survey coverage by 2030
source ↗Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
The filed text doesn't state this instrument's mechanism clearly enough to classify, so we don't guess a response — the measure text above is the read.
EU · stage awaiting-signature → high likelihood · touches galliumindiumtitaniumgermaniumnickel · flagged 15 Jun 2026, 113d pending
Establishes the first legally binding "safe level" benchmark for EU strategic stocks of each of the 17 strategic raw materials listed in the CRMA Annex I; benchmarks used as reference by Member States, financial institutions, and industrial consumers to assess strategic supply risk; mandated every 2 years, so this is the first edition setting the baseline; informs CRMA Art. 23 monitoring obligations and is the evidential basis for Art. 24 corporate-reporting thresholds
source ↗Gallium, germanium, indium — bulk/structural component (solar cells). SolAero's space solar cells (30%+ efficient triple-junction) are grown (ZTJ line) on a germanium substrate with indium-gallium-phosphide (InGaP) and indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) junction layers — all three elements are functional semiconductor layers in every cell produced, not trace dopants. China restricts gallium and germanium exp…
Gallium, germanium, indium — bulk/structural component (solar cells). SolAero's space solar cells (30%+ efficient triple-junction) are grown (ZTJ line) on a germanium substrate with indium-gallium-phosphide (InGaP) and indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) junction layers — all three elements are functional semiconductor layers in every cell produced, not trace dopants. China restricts gallium and germanium exp…
Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
+2 more touched materials — see the composition section (3) above.
This is a reporting / disclosure obligation — it does not prohibit importing from anywhere, so there is no supplier to switch and we list none. What you must do is what the measure's own text above describes: map the supply chain it covers, run the audit, and file. Its text states no filing deadline — we don't invent one.
Mapping your supply chain is exactly the work this obligation requires — your MacroLens exposure report is that map's starting point.
Further materials are covered in section 6 below.
ZA · stage passed-committee → elevated likelihood · touches chromium · flagged 15 Jun 2026, 113d pending
If enacted, chrome ore export tax and/or quota would disrupt South Africa's ~2. 4 Mt/yr chrome ore export stream (≈45% of global seaborne supply); beneficiation licensing conditions attached to mineral rights allocations would require FTSE/JSE-listed chrome miners (Samancor/Merafe, Assore, Glencore) to build local ferrochrome and stainless-steel capacity before new rights are allocated; PGMs and other minerals may follow chrome as the test-case model, expanding scope to the full South African mining portfolio
source ↗Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
This changes the form of what South Africa exports, not whether you can buy: raw/unprocessed exports are restricted while domestically processed material stays available — that is the measure's own mechanism. Your South Africa-origin raw feed becomes processed-only; the route is a value-added purchase or a South Africa processing partner, not a supplier switch.
South Africa supplies 45% of world chromium mining — that is the stake if its terms tighten.
Secondary — only if you need to avoid South Africa entirely: chromium supply outside ZA is 🇹🇷 TR 36%, 🇰🇿 KZ 28%, 🇮🇳 IN 12% (shares renormalised after removing ZA).
KZ · stage passed-vote → high likelihood · touches chromium · flagged 29 Jun 2026, 99d pending
Senate-approved package of amendments to Kazakhstan's Code on Subsoil and Subsoil Use (No. 125-VI ZRK): (1) raises the mandatory local (domestic) content share in works and services from 50% to 70% during exploration and extraction of solid minerals INCLUDING URANIUM — a material new in-country-value obligation on the world's #1 uranium producer (Kazatomprom) and its JV partners (Cameco, Orano, CGN/CNNC, Uranium One); (2) digitises geological data and expands electronic auctions for granting subsoil-use rights; (3) grants strategic investors implementing large industrial/innovation projects (>14. 5M MCI) a priority right to explore and extract solid minerals. Re-prices the cost base and access regime for Kazakh uranium, copper, chromium and the country's emerging rare-earth deposits.
source ↗Titanium, nickel, chromium — structural component (rocket engines). The Rutherford engine's thrust chamber, injector, pumps, and valves are 3D printed from titanium alloy (electron-beam melting); the combustion chamber is printed from Inconel 718, a nickel-chromium superalloy rated for ~3,000K combustion temperatures.
The filed text doesn't state this instrument's mechanism clearly enough to classify, so we don't guess a response — the measure text above is the read.
RESourceEU (COM(2025) 945, 3 Dec 2025) commits the Commission to establish a **European Critical Raw Materials Centre** in early 2026 with four functions: (a) generate **systemic market intelligence…
Revises 30 CFR Part 580 to streamline 10 provisions governing prospecting, leasing, and operations for hard minerals (manganese nodules, cobalt-rich crusts, seafloor massive sulfides) on the US Outer…
Replaces 2016 Code Minier; embeds 'sovereignty doctrine' with stronger state participation, local-transformation mandate, and WAEMU-conformity requirements; President Faye targeted adoption before en…
Tanzania's Ministry of Minerals (Minister Anthony Mavunde) has FINALISED a Critical and Strategic Minerals Strategy that takes legal effect only once the Government formally approves and gazettes the…
Madagascar's Council of Ministers approved resumption of mining-permit issuance on ~28-29 Jan 2026, ending a moratorium in place since 2010 (imposed during a political transition amid mining-title sp…
Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy Mamadou Sangafowa-Coulibaly formally launched the revision of Côte d'Ivoire's 2014 Mining Code on 13 June 2026, standing up an expert team drawn from his minis…
Mongolia's cabinet approved and submitted to the State Great Khural a draft amending ~40% of the 2006 Minerals Law: (i) cuts the maximum exploration-licence duration from 12 to 6 years while raising…
VP Constantino Chiwenga announced at the Zimbabwe-China Business Forum (Hangzhou) that Zimbabwe will no longer issue new mining licences for operations that extract only one mineral from a deposit —…
Zimbabwean officials have signalled intent ("raw chrome exports obsolete") to expand the 25-Feb-2026 raw-mineral/lithium-concentrate export ban (filed) to cover chrome CONCENTRATE specifically — conc…
The 12 July 2025 Bougival Accord (13-page political agreement creating a "State of New Caledonia" within France, pending a 2026 referendum + French organic law) contains an economic-rebuilding pact t…
VP declared no new large-scale mining agreement will be concluded without a binding value-addition commitment; Mines Minister referenced Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ghana, and Malawi precedents for raw-miner…
Binding plurilateral trade agreement among like-minded partners (US, EU, Japan and FORGE coalition members) establishing coordinated trade measures for critical mineral supply chains — including bord…
Second wave of CRMA Art.
Indonesia = ~50% global nickel mine supply and dominant producer of NPI/ferronickel/MHP; export duty on downstream nickel products (NPI, ferronickel, nickel matte, MHP) would add a material cost laye…
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry (ESDM) and Ministry of Finance announced May 11, 2026 that the implementation of higher tiered royalty rates under Government Regulation (PP) 19/2025 — cover…
Saudi sovereign mining vehicle Manara Minerals (PIF + Ma'aden JV) is in advanced negotiations to acquire a 15-20% equity stake (deal value ~USD 1.
Full replacement of the Mining Act 1992 with sweeping new statute: state acquires up to 30% equity in any new mining project (Kumul Minerals free-carry); special mining leases (SML) issued for initia…
Ministry of Mines issued operational guidelines for the Mining Sector Reforms component under Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) FY2026-27, with total ₹5,000 crore…
3 of 48 filed an explicit in-force stage; the rest (flagged below) default from an absent stage: field, not a filed assertion. Each links to the register entry with its primary source.
⚠ Extraterritorial measure — switching supplier origin may not exit its scope.
China State Council enacts unified Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items claims reach over foreign-made goods (“extraterritorial”) — the rule follows the material, not the seller, so an alternative outside the issuer can still be captured if its products contain or are made with in-scope inputs. Verify each alternative's feedstock origin before treating it as an exit.
For a material it buys, a restriction tightens supply and raises input cost — a headwind. Scores are footprint-adjusted and buyer-relative (0–100, higher = more exposed).
Its sector (space satellite) has no downstream edges in our supply-chain adjacency graph — no downstream signal in the register.
For each bought material: the ex-controller producers a procurement team can actually reach, from the alternatives map (derived 2026-10-06), viability-gated — each name carries its deployment status (with the verbatim dossier phrase it rests on), a capture check against the measure being escaped, and any contracted-capacity evidence. Deployable-now names sort first; a developer with zero tonnes is shown demoted, never dressed up as a switch you can make today. Tradability is inherited from the listing layer, never guessed.
⚠ Extraterritorial measure — switching supplier origin may not exit its scope.
China State Council enacts unified Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items claims reach over foreign-made goods (“extraterritorial”) — the rule follows the material, not the seller, so an alternative outside the issuer can still be captured if its products contain or are made with in-scope inputs. Verify each alternative's feedstock origin before treating it as an exit.
+5 more tradable names, ranked below these by the same gate.
+5 more tradable names, ranked below these by the same gate.
⚠ Extraterritorial measure — switching supplier origin may not exit its scope.
China State Council enacts unified Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items claims reach over foreign-made goods (“extraterritorial”) — the rule follows the material, not the seller, so an alternative outside the issuer can still be captured if its products contain or are made with in-scope inputs. Verify each alternative's feedstock origin before treating it as an exit.
+1 more tradable names, ranked below these by the same gate.
+34 more tradable names, ranked below these by the same gate.
lib/policy-transmission.ts): an export prohibition in the measure's name/text → supply restriction; a raw/unprocessed-export limit or local-processing mandate → beneficiation (form change, not unavailability); reporting/disclosure/due-diligence language → compliance obligation; tariff/trade-remedy language → import cost; subsidy/fast-track/relaxation language → support; investment-screening/M&A language → investment control. When the text carries no signal we fall back to the action-type default and label the chip inferred; when neither exists the card says so and derives no response — we never assert a class the evidence doesn't support.lib/iptm-material-country-production.ts; mining stage preferred, refining as fallback — the stage and source year are in each figure's hover text). Ex-issuer supply removes the ISSUING country and renormalises the remaining listed shares (so they sum to 100% of what's left) — alternatives to the country making the rule, never a default ex-China list. Where the issuer holds no measurable share, the card says so plainly instead of implying supply loss.lib/alternative-viability.ts): each named alternative carries a deployment status — operating / ramping / restarting / development / unknown — derived from word-boundary signal phrases in its own dossier (“operating since 1896”, “restarting the … mine”, “FID taken”), and the verbatim matched phrase is shown as the basis so the claim is auditable; a dossier with no signal stays unknown, never guessed. Any evidenced production date is quoted verbatim (“first production targeted H2 2029” → “no tonnes before 2029”) — we never synthesize one. A measure whose own text claims extraterritorial / re-export / de-minimis / foreign-direct-product / percentage-of-value scope triggers the origin-switching warning above the list: such a rule follows the material, not the seller, so a foreign-made alternative can still be captured. Same-issuer register actions targeting an alternative's country and material mark it may be captured, with the entries linked. “Capacity partly committed” lines quote the dossier verbatim — we hold no structured free-capacity numbers and never imply a utilisation figure.How MacroLens tracks this for you. The policy register files new measures daily and this page recomputes from it — the same chokepoints are monitored live on the watchlist and in the full register.