China’s Ministry of Commerce is planning export bans on 24 technologies and restrictions on a further 115. The ‘Catalog of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export in China’ is available for download here in Chinese language. After 50 years of China being a banned destination for US technology, suddenly China is turning US IPR theory on its head – all part of a trade war that is brewing between China and the US – stimulated by the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. Seven technologies are recent additions and these including various types of semiconductor manufacturing, affecting the solar industry with polysilicon and wafer production export bans. Our readers interested in EVs may also wish to take note of the…