{
  "event": {
    "id": "evt-jp-espa-almt-tungsten-2026",
    "date": "2026-03-18",
    "jurisdiction": "japan",
    "issuingBody": "METI / JOGMEC",
    "titleOriginal": "経済安全保障推進法に基づく重要鉱物の供給確保計画の認定（株式会社アライドマテリアル、認定番号２０２５重要鉱物第２号－１）",
    "titleOriginalLang": "ja",
    "titleEn": "Certification of Allied Material's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for tungsten under the Economic Security Promotion Act",
    "titleEnSource": "self",
    "documentNumber": "２０２５重要鉱物第２号－１",
    "policyStatus": "active",
    "mechanism": [
      "supply_chain_security",
      "funding"
    ],
    "affectedMaterialIds": [
      "tungsten"
    ],
    "affectedSectors": [
      "industrial"
    ],
    "summary": "On 18 March 2026 (令和8年3月18日) METI certified the supply-assurance plan of Allied Material Corporation (株式会社アライドマテリアル) under the Economic Security Promotion Act (certification number ２０２５重要鉱物第２号－１): new tungsten reduction and carburisation facilities to raise production of tungsten powder and tungsten carbide powder. METI's list gives a subsidy of about 75億円 (JPY 7.5 billion), paid by JOGMEC at half the applicant's cost of the undertaking. JOGMEC lists the grant among its FY2025 (令和7年度) grant decisions.",
    "analyticalSignificance": "Japan's economic-security support works through certification plus a half-cost grant to a named domestic company, rather than equity or loans. Its tungsten plans reach the powder and carbide stages whose export China licensed from February 2025 (Announcement No. 10).",
    "supersededByEventId": null,
    "sourceIds": [
      "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
      "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants"
    ],
    "verificationStatus": "verified",
    "intakeMode": "backfill",
    "lifecycle": {
      "officialPublicationDate": null,
      "discoveredAt": null,
      "verifiedAt": "2026-09-23",
      "publishedAt": null
    }
  },
  "framing": [
    {
      "id": "fc-jp-espa-almt-tungsten-supply",
      "eventId": "evt-jp-espa-almt-tungsten-2026",
      "actor": "japan",
      "category": [
        "supply_chain_resilience",
        "economic_security"
      ],
      "quoteOriginal": "我が国の重要鉱物の安定供給確保を図る上で効果的と認められる取組",
      "quoteEn": "undertakings recognized as effective in securing the stable supply of critical minerals to Japan",
      "quoteEnSource": "self",
      "sourceId": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
      "notes": "JOGMEC's description of what the certified plans it funds must be. It is the programme's framing, not this certification's own, so it anchors only the first certification in the corpus; the later three carry no framing claim rather than repeating it, which would count the same passage four times."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
      "title": "重要鉱物（経済安全保障推進法に基づく認定供給確保計画）",
      "publisher": "経済産業省 (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)",
      "url": "https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/economic_security/metal/index.html",
      "language": "ja",
      "datePublished": null,
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "METI's critical-minerals page, section 4 (認定供給確保計画): each certified supply-assurance plan with the business, certification number, the undertaking and the approximate subsidy (※助成額は約○億円), and the certification date. Read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23 (the site refuses automated clients); eleven plans listed, the latest certified on 16 September 2026. The page is updated in place and carries no publication date for the list."
    },
    {
      "id": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
      "title": "重要鉱物助成金交付事業",
      "publisher": "独立行政法人エネルギー・金属鉱物資源機構 (JOGMEC)",
      "url": "https://www.jogmec.go.jp/activities/metal/critical-grant.html",
      "language": "ja",
      "datePublished": null,
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "JOGMEC's page for the critical-minerals grant programme under the Economic Security Promotion Act, read in full 2026-09-23. It pays certified businesses \"当該取組に係る申請者負担額の1／2の助成金\" (a grant of half the applicant's cost of the undertaking) and lists the grant decisions (交付決定事業) with approximate amounts and the fiscal year of the decision: nine as read, the latest three in 令和8年度 (FY2026). Rechecked in full on 3 October 2026 against the current official page (ten grant-decision rows). Allied Material remains an approximately JPY 7.5 billion decision in FY2025, without a calendar decision date or cash-payment disclosure. The 助成率 table states half the applicant's costs as an upper limit, not an exact project-wide ratio."
    }
  ]
}