Global Trade Alert
Global Trade Alert

China: 2025 export licensing goods catalogue announced

Announcement

31 Dec 2024

In December 2024, the Chinese government published its annual catalogue of items requiring a license before exporting.

Source

Sign in to access

Number of interventions

2

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

1 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Jan 2025

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Clarification: 30 Dec 2025
Export licensing requirement In force
On 31 December 2024, the Chinese government published the yearly list of goods which require a license before being allowed to be exported. Compared to the previous year (see related state act), 55 ta...
Sign in to see more

Implementation date

01 Jan 2025

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2025

Clarification: 30 Dec 2025
Export licensing requirement
On 31 December 2024, the Chinese government published the yearly list of goods which require a license before being allowed to be exported. Compared to the previous year (see related state act), 21 ta...
Sign in to see more

Threads

See all

Harmful Trade Policy Measures

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions affecting all products. Covering all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert, it highlights how the yearly number of these measures has evolved over time.

Published: 04 Sep 2024

70619

interventions

194

jurisdictions

Harmful Trade Policy Interventions: Iron & Steel

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions affecting iron and steel products since 2009. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert that affect at least one HS code linked to iron and steel, including fabricated metal products.

Published: 09 Jan 2025

5923

interventions

126

jurisdictions

Harmful Trade Policy Interventions: Medical Goods

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions affecting HS codes for medical consumables, equipment, medicines, vaccines, as well as chemicals used in pharmaceutical production. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert since 2009. To identify relevant policy actions, the Global Trade Alert team focused on the identification of relevant HS codes following the pr...

Published: 09 Jan 2025

7346

interventions

152

jurisdictions

Export Restrictions: Medical Goods

This Thread tracks export restrictions affecting HS codes for medical consumables, equipment, medicines, vaccines, as well as chemicals used in pharmaceutical production. It covers policy actions monitored by Global Trade Alert since 2009. To identify relevant policy actions, the Global Trade Alert team focused on the identification of relevant intervention types and HS codes. For intervention ty...

Published: 09 Jan 2025

657

interventions

98

jurisdictions

BRICS: Harmful Trade Policy Interventions

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions introduced by BRICS members since 2009. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert.

Published: 13 Jan 2025

23407

interventions

81

jurisdictions

G20: Harmful Trade Policy Interventions

This Thread tracks harmful trade policy interventions introduced by G20 members since 2009. It covers all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert.

Published: 15 Jan 2025

53951

interventions

121

jurisdictions

Import and Export Restrictions: Critical Minerals

This Thread tracks global import and export restrictions affecting critical minerals. It covers policy interventions affecting these measures since 2009. Relevant interventions are identified based on intervention type and specific HS codes. Note that the GTA focuses on a compilation list of all the critical minerals mentioned in different national lists to identify relevant HS codes.

Published: 31 Jan 2025

1442

interventions

124

jurisdictions

China’s Export Controls on Critical Raw Materials, Including Rare Earths

This Thread tracks Chinese export controls affecting critical raw materials, including rare earths, since 2023. It provides an inventory of both restrictive and liberalising actions still in force. Measures cover export bans, quotas, licenses, taxes, and other non-tariff measures, alongside subsequent relaxations such as license approvals and removals from control lists.

Published: 08 Oct 2025

57

interventions

1

jurisdictions

Liberalising Trade Policy Measures

This Thread tracks liberalising trade policy interventions affecting all products. Covering all types of interventions monitored by Global Trade Alert, it highlights how the yearly number of these measures has evolved over time.

Published: 04 Sep 2024

14450

interventions

186

jurisdictions