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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.
Volkswagen AG produces across 14 countries — 38% of mapped capacity sits in 🇨🇳 China (HQ 🇩🇪 Germany).
material exposures: neodymium · praseodymium · dysprosium · terbium · lithium · cobalt · nickel · manganese · graphite · copper · aluminium · magnesium · steel · tin · tungsten · tantalum · platinum-palladium · rhodium-iridium
14 register actions name Volkswagen AG, issued from 6 countries (top: 🇪🇺 European Union ×5) — 3 of those also sit in its production footprint (regulator ∩ producer).
Latest: 🇪🇺 EU Industrial Accelerator Act — Commission proposal COM(2026) 100 final · 2026-03-04 · 216d ago
Its 17 scored input materials trace to 2 supplier countries — 2 refine >70% in a single country. Top input chokepoint: 🇨🇳 China (dysprosium 99%, terbium 99%, manganese 90%, +12). (1 exposure without scored production data: steel)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), +7 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: neodymium → · praseodymium → · dysprosium → · terbium → · lithium → · cobalt → · nickel → · graphite → · copper → · aluminium → · magnesium → · tin → · tungsten → · platinum-palladium → · rhodium-iridium →
Overlap node: 🇨🇳 China sits in two of the three layers — 38% of mapped capacity · dominant world supplier of 15 scored inputs (dysprosium 99%). It hosts capacity AND controls an input feeding it — a two-sided lever.Also multi-layer: 🇩🇪 Germany (produces + regulates) · 🇪🇸 Spain (produces + regulates) · 🇧🇷 Brazil (produces + regulates)
Named counterparties: this dossier names 13 firms with a source; 5 are in this corpus with a mapped footprint, and 4 of those produce in a country already on this map (🇨🇳 China · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇺🇸 United States) — the named end of an exposure the country layers show anonymously.Patriot Battery Metals Inc. (supplier, related party) 🇨🇦 CA · Umicore SA/NV (IONWAY joint venture) (supplier, related party) 🇧🇪 BE ◆ · Huayou Cobalt (华友钴业) (supplier) 🇨🇳 CN ◆ · Gotion High-Tech Co., Ltd. (国轩高科) (supplier, related party) 🇨🇳 CN ◆ · Unior Group (supplier) 🇸🇮 SI ◆ ◆ = produces in a country already on this map.6 other dossiers name Volkswagen AG from the other side (supplier). 8 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.