{"id":332726,"date":"2025-08-10T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332726\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:57:10","slug":"germany-concerned-over-disruptions-in-critical-raw-material-supplies-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332726\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany concerned over disruptions in critical raw material supplies from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 August 2025 12:25<\/p>\n<p><strong>The German government has expressed growing concern over delays in the supply of critically important raw materials from China, including rare earth metals essential for weapons manufacturing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the German newspaper <strong><a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/seltene-rohstoffe-regierung-in-sorge-wegen-china-erpressung-6892109025b84e6d4210b7e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bild<\/a><\/strong>, these disruptions risk forcing several defence industry enterprises to halt operations.<\/p>\n<p>China, which controls over 90% of the global rare earth elements market, has recently tightened its export regulations. Companies now must obtain licenses and disclose information on the end use of these materials. Business lawyer Amir-Said Gassabeh warned that small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany have reserves lasting only &#8220;a few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The German Ministry of Economics described the situation as \u201cvery serious\u201d and urged affected companies to seek support from the European Commission to apply diplomatic pressure on Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also highlighted the urgent need to diversify supply sources, noting that alternative production capacities outside China remain extremely limited.<\/p>\n<p>By Khagan Isayev<\/p>\n<p><b>Caliber.Az<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: <b>45<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 August 2025 12:25 The German government has expressed growing concern over delays in the supply of critically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[23355,7503,7502,2000,299,1824,23356,23359,466,23358,23357,23354],"class_list":{"0":"post-332726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","15":"tag-international-experts","16":"tag-interviews","17":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","18":"tag-news-from-baku","19":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115003643974524870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}