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SINGAPORE, June 19 (Reuters) – China is stepping up scrutiny over exports of indium, leading some buyers to fear the niche metal, sought after for next-generation data centers, may be \u200badded to the export control regime that has become one of Beijing’s most \u200cpotent trade weapons.<\/div>\n
China produces nearly 70% of the world’s indium, a byproduct of zinc refining mostly used in displays and solder but also the raw material for making indium phosphide, used to make high-speed optical \u200bchips for AI data centers.<\/div>\n
Beijing put indium phosphide on an export control list in \u200bFebruary 2025 and the restrictions have become enough of a hurdle for \u2060next-generation data centers that the CEO of Nvidia-backed chipmaker Coherent traveled to Beijing with President \u200bDonald Trump in May to raise the issue.<\/div>\n
While indium metal is not on the export \u200bcontrol list, two buyers told Reuters about growing scrutiny over their purchases from Chinese customs. For the first time this year, a European buyer was asked to disclose information about end users, including where they \u200bwere based.<\/div>\n
A major buyer in North America said approvals had gone from same day to \u200bseveral days, which they attributed to more scrutiny of paperwork and described as “tense”. This buyer had not \u200cbeen \u2060asked for extra information by customs.<\/div>\n
China’s Ministry of Commerce did not immediately respond to a request for comment on a public holiday.<\/div>\n
All the buyers declined to be named owing to the sensitivity of the topic.<\/div>\n
The extra due diligence is not uniform and two other buyers told \u200bReuters they had heard \u200bof extra scrutiny \u2060but not faced it themselves. So far, Reuters has not identified any shipments that have been blocked.<\/div>\n
Nonetheless there is some concern in the \u200bsmall industry that this is a prelude to tighter controls or \u200bthe end-user \u2060disclosures which China, and other countries with export control regimes, use to chart global supply chains and chokepoints.<\/div>\n
Indium has been identified as a potential vulnerability for the U.S., whose Defense Logistics Agency earlier \u2060this \u200byear released a request for proposals to stockpile up \u200bto 403 tons of the material over three years.<\/div>\n
Another North American buyer said they suspected that the reporting requirements \u200bwere “a precursor to restrictions or outright bans on exports.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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