Investigation Nos. 701-TA-752 and 731-TA-1730; FR Docs. 2025-00656, 2025-00657, 2026-06488
Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: antidumping and countervailing duty investigations
Summary
Commerce initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of active anode material from China, applicable 7 January 2025, on petitions filed on 18 December 2024 by the American Active Anode Material Producers. The scope covers anode-grade graphite of at least 90 percent carbon by weight, synthetic, natural or blended, in any form, with HTSUS subheadings listed for convenience only. Commerce went on to make affirmative determinations of subsidy and of sales at less than fair value. On 31 March 2026 the International Trade Commission determined that the establishment of a US industry is not materially retarded by reason of those imports, with one commissioner dissenting, so the investigations ended without duty orders.
Analytical significance
The corpus's first allied import-side control case on a tracked material, and a negative one: the trade-remedy track against Chinese graphite anode material, the midstream product China's own graphite export controls cover, ended at the injury stage. Recording it matters precisely because nothing was imposed — a database of restrictions that listed only successful ones would overstate how much of the allied response is legally in force.
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Trade investigation · Investigation No. 731-TA-1730
Investigation concludedInvestigation Nos. 701-TA-752 and 731-TA-1730; FR Docs. 2025-00656, 2025-00657, 2026-06488
Trade investigation · Investigation No. 701-TA-752
Investigation concludedInvestigation Nos. 701-TA-752 and 731-TA-1730; FR Docs. 2025-00656, 2025-00657, 2026-06488
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Sources (3)
Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
Primary sourceFederal Register (International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce)
FR Doc. 2025-00656, applicable 7 January 2025. Read via the Federal Register full-text endpoint on 2026-09-23. Source of the petition date (18 December 2024), the scope appendix (anode-grade graphite of at least 90 percent carbon, synthetic, natural or blended) and the HTSUS subheadings, which the notice says are "provided for convenience and customs purposes only".
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00656/active-anode-material-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china-initiation-of-less-than-fair-value-investigation
Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation
Primary sourceFederal Register (International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce)
FR Doc. 2025-00657, applicable 7 January 2025. Read via the Federal Register full-text endpoint on 2026-09-23. Same scope appendix and HTSUS subheadings as the less-than-fair-value investigation.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00657/active-anode-material-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china-initiation-of-countervailing-duty-investigation
Active Anode Material from China; Determinations (Investigation Nos. 701-TA-752 and 731-TA-1730 (Final))
Primary sourceFederal Register (United States International Trade Commission)
FR Doc. 2026-06488, 91 FR 16968. Read in full via the Federal Register full-text endpoint on 2026-09-23. The Commission determined, on 31 March 2026, that the establishment of a US industry is not materially retarded by reason of the imports Commerce found subsidized and sold at less than fair value (Commissioner Kearns dissenting). Commerce's final affirmative determinations are cited in the notice's background but were not separately read for this record.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/03/2026-06488/active-anode-material-from-china-determinations
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Strategic Materials Policy Tracker. "Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: antidumping and countervailing duty investigations." Record evt-us-aam-adcvd-2025, 2025-01-07. https://strategic-materials-policy-tracker.vercel.app/events/evt-us-aam-adcvd-2025