# 2025-00656: Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation

2025-00656, Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective 2025-01-07; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00656
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00656
- Title: Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: 2025-01-07
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## Summary

The U.S. Department of Commerce is starting an investigation into whether active anode materials imported from China are being sold unfairly cheap, which could hurt American producers. This means importers from China might face new duties soon, helping U.S. companies compete fairly. The investigation kicked off on January 7, 2025, so changes and possible extra costs could happen in the near future.

## Effects PRIA read

- Commerce opens antidumping probe: mixed, high. The U.S. Department of Commerce initiated a less-than-fair-value (antidumping) investigation of active anode material from the People’s Republic of China on January 7, 2025. Commerce will make its preliminary LTFV determination no later than 140 days after initiation, and the U.S. International Tra…
- Estimated dumping margins are very large: cost, high. In its initiation analysis, Commerce reported estimated dumping margins for active anode material from China ranging from 823.40 percent to 915.74 percent. These are the estimated margins Commerce used at initiation to support the case.
- Investigation defines covered anode material: mixed, medium. The scope covers anode-grade graphite active anode material with a graphite minimum purity of 90% carbon by weight, energy density of 330 milliamp hours per gram or greater, and graphitization of 80% or greater, in powder, dry, liquid, or block form. Commerce lists HTSUS subheadings 2504.10.5000 an…
- Questionnaires and respondent selection set: cost, medium. Commerce will solicit quantity-and-value (Q&V) questionnaires from the largest producers/exporters in China identified in U.S. Customs POI entry data and will post Q&V questionnaires and filing instructions on its website. Identified producers/exporters must submit Q&V responses by 5:00 p.m. Easter…
- Separate-rate applications required for Chinese firms: cost, low. Exporters and producers in China seeking separate-rate status in this non-market-economy investigation must submit separate rate applications; Commerce states the separate rate application is due 30 days after publication of the initiation notice.

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## Sources
- [2025-00656 on federalregister.gov](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)
- [2025-00656 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00656.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00656 (as of 2026-06-08).