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Pick a company to see where it actually produces — every country in its footprint, shaded by capacity share — overlaid with the countries whose register actions name it (severity ring + action count), plus violet arcs to the chokepoint countries its material inputs depend on. The map is a lens; the dossier and register are the source of record.
Mercedes-Benz Group AG produces across 11 countries — 30% of mapped capacity sits in 🇩🇪 Germany (HQ 🇩🇪 Germany).
material exposures: lithium · cobalt · nickel · graphite · manganese · copper · aluminium · neodymium · praseodymium · dysprosium · niobium · platinum-palladium · rhodium-iridium · magnesium · tin · tungsten
7 register actions name Mercedes-Benz Group AG, issued from 6 countries (top: 🇩🇪 Germany ×2) — 3 of those also sit in its production footprint (regulator ∩ producer).
Latest: 🇷🇴 Romania — Ordonanța de Urgență nr. 8/2026: Economic Relaunch, Productive Investment and Competitiveness · 2026-02-24 · 224d ago
Its 16 scored input materials trace to 3 supplier countries — 3 refine >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China (dysprosium 99%, manganese 90%, tungsten 90%, +10).Armed chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China has itself issued 24 register actions restricting the inputs it already dominates — neodymium (7), graphite (6), rare-earth-elements (6), dysprosium (5), +6 more — max severity 5/5. This share is a demonstrated lever, not just a concentration.Latest: China MOFCOM Announcement No. 27 [2026] — 20 more Japanese entities incl. National Institute for Defense Studies added to Control List · 2026-06-29 · 99d ago
Substitutes & lead-time to switch: lithium → · cobalt → · nickel → · graphite → · copper → · aluminium → · neodymium → · praseodymium → · dysprosium → · niobium → · platinum-palladium → · rhodium-iridium → · magnesium → · tin → · tungsten →
Overlap node: 🇨🇳 China sits in two of the three layers — 20% of mapped capacity · dominant world supplier of 13 scored inputs (dysprosium 99%). It hosts capacity AND controls an input feeding it — a two-sided lever.Also multi-layer: 🇧🇷 Brazil (produces + supplies) · 🇺🇸 United States (produces + regulates) · 🇩🇪 Germany (produces + regulates) · +2 more
Named counterparties: this dossier names 17 firms with a source; 10 are in this corpus with a mapped footprint, and 9 of those produce in a country already on this map (🇩🇪 Germany · 🇭🇺 HU · 🇨🇳 China · 🇺🇸 United States) — the named end of an exposure the country layers show anonymously.Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (supplier) 🇩🇪 DE ◆ · Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (supplier) 🇰🇷 KR ◆ · Norsk Hydro ASA (supplier) 🇳🇴 NO ◆ · Valeo SE (motor unit; joint venture as Valeo Siemens eAutomotive GmbH at contract award, wholly Valeo-owned since 2022-07-01) (supplier) 🇨🇳 CN ◆ · Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (supplier) 🇺🇸 US ◆ · AGC Glass Europe (supplier) 🇧🇪 BE ◆ · +4 more on the dossier → ◆ = produces in a country already on this map.7 other dossiers name Mercedes-Benz Group AG from the other side (supplier / customer). 7 named firms could not be placed on the map — named in a primary source but not yet onboarded as a dossier, or onboarded without a production footprint. Named, not missing.
Reading the map: green shading = the company's production countries by capacity share, with dots at facility cities (dashed = approximate, country-level). Violet arcs = INPUT DEPENDENCIES — they run from the country that dominates world production/refining of a material the company consumes to the company's base; the % is that country's share of world supply at the named stage, NOT an import/export volume. Severity rings = countries whose register actions name the company.