{
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-cn-mofcom-58-2025",
    "date": "2025-10-09",
    "jurisdiction": "china",
    "issuingBody": "MOFCOM / GACC",
    "titleOriginal": "商务部 海关总署公告2025年第58号 公布对锂电池和人造石墨负极材料相关物项实施出口管制的决定",
    "titleOriginalLang": "zh",
    "titleEn": "MOFCOM & GACC Announcement No. 58 of 2025: decision to implement export controls on lithium battery and artificial graphite anode material items",
    "titleEnSource": "self",
    "documentNumber": "MOFCOM & GACC Announcement [2025] No. 58",
    "policyStatus": "suspended",
    "mechanism": [
      "export_control",
      "dual_use_license"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "graphite",
      "lithium",
      "cobalt",
      "nickel"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "battery"
    ],
    "summary": "Controls three item groups: lithium-ion batteries of 300 Wh/kg or more, the equipment that makes them and the technology to produce them; lithium iron phosphate, ternary-precursor and lithium-rich manganese cathode materials and cathode production equipment; and graphite anode materials, both artificial and mixed artificial-natural, with the granulation, graphitisation and coating equipment and the granulation, continuous-graphitisation and liquid-phase-coating technology used to make them. Exports need a MOFCOM licence, and customs declarations must state whether goods are controlled. It was to take effect on 8 November 2025; Announcement No. 70 suspended it from 7 November 2025 to 10 November 2026, so it never took effect.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "Extends China's battery-supply-chain controls beyond raw or intermediate mineral forms to high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries, cathode materials, the equipment used to make them and production technology, while separately covering graphite anode materials. Lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite now touch tracked materials; manganese embedded in the ternary-precursor limb remains outside the tracked material set. The cobalt and nickel attributions come from explicitly cobalt- and nickel-bearing ternary precursors, not from controls on raw cobalt or raw nickel. The measure was suspended before its start date and therefore never took effect.",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-mofcom-58",
      "src-mofcom-70"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": "2025-10-09",
      "discoveredAt": null,
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-23",
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [
    {
      "id": "fc-cn-58-2025-natsec",
      "eventId": "evt-cn-mofcom-58-2025",
      "actor": "china",
      "category": [
        "national_security",
        "compliance_modernization"
      ],
      "quoteOriginal": "为维护国家安全和利益、履行防扩散等国际义务",
      "quoteEn": "to safeguard national security and interests and fulfil international obligations such as non-proliferation",
      "quoteEnSource": "self",
      "sourceId": "src-mofcom-58",
      "notes": "Justification clause of Announcement No. 58 (2025), read verbatim from the MOFCOM primary on 2026-09-23; the same national-security and non-proliferation pairing as Announcement No. 18."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-mofcom-58",
      "title": "商务部 海关总署公告2025年第58号 公布对锂电池和人造石墨负极材料相关物项实施出口管制的决定",
      "publisher": "中华人民共和国商务部、海关总署 (Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs, PRC)",
      "url": "https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_79646f0161564975a938fe00fee158d5.html",
      "language": "zh",
      "datePublished": "2025-10-09",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Chinese primary for Announcement No. 58 (2025), read in full 2026-09-23. Justification clause verbatim: 根据《中华人民共和国出口管制法》《中华人民共和国对外贸易法》《中华人民共和国海关法》《中华人民共和国两用物项出口管制条例》有关规定，为维护国家安全和利益、履行防扩散等国际义务，经国务院批准. Three item groups: lithium batteries (3A001, 3B901.a, 3E901.a), cathode materials (3C901.a.1–3, 3B901.b) and graphite anode materials (3C901.b.1, a mixed-anode entry printed as 3C902.b.2, 3B901.c.1–3, 3E901.b); \"本公告自2025年11月8日起正式实施\"."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-mofcom-70",
      "title": "MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 70 of 2025 (suspension of Announcements Nos. 55, 56, 57, 58, 61 and 62 of 2025)",
      "publisher": "Ministry of Commerce (China)",
      "url": "https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/2025/art_b1ec77dd3f0d4762952904df7cdaadec.html",
      "language": "zh",
      "datePublished": "2025-11-07",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-09",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Primary suspension decision. Operative text inspected directly: 自即日起至2026年11月10日，商务部、海关总署公告2025年第55号、56号、57号、58号，及商务部公告2025年第61号、62号暂停实施。 The announcement body carries no justification clause beyond 经批准 (upon approval)."
    }
  ]
}