# 2025-00657: Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation

2025-00657, Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 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/2025-00657
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00657
- Title: Active Anode Material From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 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. government is starting an investigation into whether active anode materials imported from China are unfairly supported by their government, which could hurt American producers. This means extra taxes might be added to these imports to keep things fair. The investigation kicked off on January 7, 2025, and could impact prices and trade soon.

## Effects PRIA read

- CVD Investigation Initiated Jan 7, 2025: mixed, medium. The Department of Commerce initiated a countervailing duty (CVD) investigation into imports of active anode material from the People's Republic of China, applicable January 7, 2025. The period of investigation is January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023, and Commerce will make its preliminary CVD…
- Company-Specific Subsidy Rates and Respondent Selection: cost, medium. Commerce intends to calculate company-specific subsidy rates and may select mandatory respondents using U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry data. CBP import data for active anode material from China was released under administrative protective order on January 7, 2025, and interested par…
- Precise Product Scope Defined for Coverage: mixed, low. The investigation covers active anode material defined as anode-grade graphite with a minimum graphite purity of 90 percent carbon by weight, energy density of 330 milliamp hours per gram or greater, degree of graphitization of 80 percent or greater, and typically a maximum size of 80 microns in po…
- Petition Filed on Behalf of U.S. Domestic Industry: benefit, medium. Commerce found that the petition was filed on behalf of the domestic industry because supporting domestic producers account for more than 50 percent of U.S. production of the domestic like product. The petition was filed December 18, 2024, by the American Active Anode Material Producers, an ad hoc…

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## Sources
- [2025-00657 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00657/active-anode-material-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china-initiation-of-countervailing-duty)
- [2025-00657 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00657.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00657 (as of 2026-06-08).