Trade & Investment Trade, supply chains & industrial policy

Export controls

States are widening licensing regimes on chips, tools and software and applying them to third countries, which makes a nation's access to advanced capabilities conditional on its political alignment and compliance capacity.

Rank: 226; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.23×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 23; 100 is the typical trend
Change: −9%; WoW
Volatility: ±5%; Turbulent

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

1.3×

#118

0.60×

#209

0.41×

#203

0.41×

#217

0.40×

#203

0.40×

#231

0.37×

#231

0.34×

#221

0.33×

#207

0.22×

#235

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

0.63×

#204

0.46×

#199

0.42×

#217

0.41×

#204

0.41×

#218

0.40×

#224

0.38×

#200

0.38×

#204

0.34×

#221

0.33×

#230

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

3.3×

#48

1.5×

#116

1.5×

#118

1.2×

#140

1.0×

#146

0.99×

#133

0.86×

#160

0.76×

#196

0.75×

#196

0.69×

#196

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 49.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Export controls, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.