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In Southeast Asia, that trade was buoyed by leaps in the export of machine tools, automobile parts and computer components.—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025 China has restricted the export of mid-tier precision machine tools to Russia, industry insiders say, in an apparent success for U.S. secondary sanctions aimed at weakening Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025 Other developments, such as 3D printing and specialized machine tools, have likewise reduced some of the technical chokepoints to proliferation.—Mariano-Florentino CuÉllar, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025 Many of those industrial inputs – from electronics and automotive parts to machine tools and chemicals – flow into the United States on Chinese vessels.—Dan Ikenson, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for machine tool