RE: Belt And Road Initiative / Cascabel: A $12B development26 Jun 2025 12:38
Yes it applies to 17 types of notifiable acquisitions. But it is not critical materials it is advanced materials.
Advanced Materials
The development and utilisation of Advanced Materials across Defence as well as civil sectors is rapidly growing and is crucial to help transform important industrial sectors and underpin key areas of high-value manufacturing.
The risk to national security posed by Advanced Materials is also clear. Advanced Materials offer significant benefits to military capability, through increased functionality, improved survivability, enhanced maintainability and reduced through-life cost.
The cross-cutting and dual-use nature of Advanced Materials also means that emerging technologies using advanced materials are likely to have defence and security applications and implications; irrespective of the application or sector that is driving their development.