<h1>Government expands export controls to require foreign approval for products with domestic critical minerals, mirroring extraterritorial FDI rules</h1> A government expanded export-control rules to require foreign firms to obtain approval before exporting products incorporating domestically sourced critical minerals or technology, effectively applying extraterritorial jurisdiction similar to another state's foreign direct product rule. The same government has adopted mirror measures to existing foreign tools-an 'unreliable entities' blacklist, an anti-foreign-sanctions law enabling asset freezes and visa denials, and tightened foreign-investment and export-review regimes-deploying them in recent tariff and sanction exchanges. Legal risks include contested claims of reciprocity, escalation through asymmetric enforcement, and challenges under international trade and investment obligations.