Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs says the island’s chip sector will see “no significant impact” from China’s newly expanded rare-earth export controls, in comments data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/taiwan-says-doesnt-need-china-most-its-rare-earths-needs-2025-10-12/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/taiwan-says-doesnt-need-china-most-its-rare-earths-needs-2025-10-12/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>first reported by Reuterson October 12. Those reassuring words come just days after Beijing added a fresh batch of heavy rare earths to its licensing regime — including holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, and ytterbium — and widened the scope to cover associated materials and processing tech.
Officials in Taipei were quick…

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