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On a production-weighted basis, North American synthetic anode costs about $5,100/tonne in 2026, against about $3,020/tonne in China. Including the 37.5% tariff level in place since June, Chinese material costs about $4,150/tonne in the US, closing more than half of that gap.",{"type":605,"attrs":765,"content":766},{"textAlign":49},[767],{"text":768,"type":610},"The rest of the gap could close soon. The excess-capacity Section 301 investigation, due by March 2027, could add a further tariff on Chinese anode, and any increase would narrow the gap further. Federal finance is covering a growing share of capex, and costs should come down as plants scale. Together, these give US producers a realistic path to cost parity with Chinese material.","US federal agencies have emerged as major backers of the country’s graphite anode supply chain. Across August and September, the US Army and Export-Import Bank (EXIM) have provided funding or land for projects that have struggled to secure private investment.\n\nIn August, EXIM approved a USD $25 million direct loan for Phase I of Westwater Resources' Kellyton, Alabama plant under its Make More in America Initiative. Phase I is designed to produce ~12.5ktpa of coated spherical purified graphite (CSPG).\n\n“Loans, land and grants are lowering the cost of building plants, and tariffs are closing most of the running-cost gap,” said Tony Alderson, Research Manager at Benchmark. “With buyers increasingly willing to pay for traceable, non-Chinese material, US projects are closer to competing than headline costs suggest.”",[771],{"slug":772,"name":643,"content":773},"tony-alderson",{"job_title":774,"image":775,"bio":777,"linkedin":778,"markets_covered":263},"Research Manager - Anode",{"filename":776},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/800x800/f521ccb976/tony-alderson.jpeg","Tony is a Research Manager at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, specialising in forward-looking models that encompass supply, demand, and pricing dynamics for anode materials. He has over 3 years experience in the battery supply chain, previously working as a Price & Data Analyst, for LiB raw materials. His background is in renewable and sustainable energy technologies, having completed an MSc at Northumbria University, Newcastle.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-alderson-b370b7170/","article",[781,783,786,788,791,794,797],{"slug":782,"name":263},"anode",{"slug":784,"name":785},"graphite","Graphite",{"slug":787,"name":189},"natural-graphite",{"slug":789,"name":790},"synthetic-graphite","Synthetic Graphite",{"slug":792,"name":793},"geopolitics","Geopolitics",{"slug":795,"name":796},"raw-materials","Raw Materials",{"slug":798,"name":799},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals","private",{"id":802,"alt":674,"name":674,"focus":674,"title":674,"source":674,"filename":803,"copyright":674,"fieldtype":804,"meta_data":805,"is_external_url":50},233018247502303,"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/1588x1388/072be69967/us-investment-into-anode-has-dwarfed-all-other-nations-combined-from-2021-26-2x.png","asset",{"size":806},"1588x1388",{"id":808,"alt":674,"name":674,"focus":674,"title":674,"source":674,"filename":809,"copyright":674,"fieldtype":804,"meta_data":810,"is_external_url":50},233020892269580,"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/2560x1917/20041af811/novonix-riverside-graphite-facility-interior-2-1-scaled.jpg",{},"US federal agencies have emerged as major backers of the country’s graphite anode supply chain. 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