China's Ministry of Commerce on June 22 banned the export of dual-use items to 10 U.S. companies, including rare earth producers MP Materials Corp. and USA Rare Earth, and defense companies Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and L3Harris. The same day, China's Ministry of Finance announced that it had banned government procurement from 46 U.S. companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp., General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, in a post on its eProcurement website.