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Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 240816–0219]
Request for Public Comments on the
Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2026 Annual
Materials Plan From the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact
Committee
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of inquiry; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Defense
Stockpile Market Impact Committee, cochaired by the Departments of
SUMMARY:
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Commerce and State, is seeking public
comments on the potential market
impact of proposed changes to the
Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Annual Materials
Plan (AMP). Potential changes to the
AMP are decided by the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact
Committee, which advises the Defense
Logistics Agency in its role as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager on
the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions,
conversions, and disposals involving
the National Defense Stockpile.
DATES: To be considered, written
comments must be received by
September 30, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may
be submitted to the Federal rulemaking
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regulations.gov ID for this rule is: BIS–
2024–0030. Please refer to XRIN 0694–
XC107 in all comments.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tosca Fischer, Office of Strategic
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The federal government operates
several different stockpiles that are
managed by different federal agencies
depending on the stockpile’s purpose.
For example, the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) manages the
Strategic National Stockpile, which
contains medicines and medical
equipment. HHS’ stockpile may
supplement medical countermeasures
needed by states, tribal nations,
territories, and the largest metropolitan
areas during public health emergencies.
Another example is the Department of
Energy’s operation of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve for use in the event
the international oil market is severely
disrupted.
The Department of Defense (DOD)
maintains a stockpile of critical and
strategic materials known as the
National Defense Stockpile (NDS).
During a war or national emergency,
this stockpile is meant to provide
strategic and critical materials to
support national defense and essential
civilian requirements. The stockpile
currently contains 61 materials
(primarily minerals) that are deemed
strategic and critical to national
security.1
Under the authority of the Strategic
and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Revision Act of 1979, as amended (the
Stock Piling Act) (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.),
the Department of Defense’s Defense
Logistics Agency (DLA) is the National
Defense Stockpile Manager. The NDS is
a strategic stockpile, not an economic
stockpile. It is not intended to influence
prices in the market or insulate private
industry from supply shocks. Rather, its
purpose is to ensure the defense and
essential civilian industrial base has
consistent access to the materiel it
needs—and the private industries
making products have the raw materials
they need—during a war or national
emergency.
Congress authorizes the sale of excess
materials from the stockpile, and
proceeds from the sales are transferred
to the National Defense Stockpile
Transaction Fund. The NDS does not
receive annual appropriations in the
defense budget for operational expenses.
Instead, the stockpile has a revolving
fund in what the U.S. Treasury termed
the National Defense Stockpile
1 Defense
Logistics Agency, ‘‘Strategic Materials:
Office,’’ U.S. Department of Defense, https://
www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/About.
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Transaction Fund.2 Whenever materials
in the stockpile are sold, the proceeds
from that sale are added to that fund.
The DLA then uses that money to pay
for the operational expenses
accompanying the maintenance of the
stockpile. Information about stockpile
disposals—what was sold and at what
value it was sold—is publicly available
in monthly announcements published
by the DLA.3
Section 3314 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
(FY 1993 NDAA) (50 U.S.C. 98h–1)
formally established a Market Impact
Committee (the Committee) to ‘‘advise
the National Defense Stockpile Manager
on the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions and
disposals of materials from the
stockpile . . .’’ The Committee must
also balance market impact concerns
with the statutory requirement to
protect the U.S. Government against
avoidable loss. See 50 U.S.C. 98e(b)(2).
The Committee is comprised of
representatives from the Departments of
Commerce, State, Agriculture, Defense,
Energy, Interior, the Treasury, and
Homeland Security. The FY 1993 NDAA
directs the Committee to consult with
industry representatives that produce,
process, or consume the types of
materials stored in the stockpile as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager.
The DLA must produce an Annual
Materials Plan (AMP) proposing the
maximum quantity of each listed
material that may be acquired, disposed
of, upgraded, converted, recovered, or
sold by the DLA in a particular fiscal
year. With this notice, Commerce, on
behalf of the DLA, lists the quantities
and types of activity—potential
disposals, potential acquisitions,
potential conversions (upgrade, rotation,
reprocessing, etc.) or potential recovery
(from government sources) —associated
with each material in its proposed FY
2026 AMP.
The quantities listed in Attachment 1
are not acquisition, disposal, upgrade,
conversion, recovery, reprocessing, or
sales target quantities, but rather a
statement of the proposed maximum
quantity of each listed material that may
be acquired, disposed of, upgraded,
converted, recovered, or sold in a
particular fiscal year by the DLA. The
quantity of each material that will
actually be acquired or offered for sale
will depend on the market for the
material at the time of the acquisition or
offering, as well as on the quantity of
2 Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Revision Act of 1979, Public Law 96–41, p. 5.
3 https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/
Announcements/.
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each material approved by Congress for
acquisition, disposal, conversion, or
recovery.
Additional Instructions for Comments
The Committee is interested in any
supporting data and documentation on
the potential market impact of the
quantities associated with the proposed
FY 2026 AMP.
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Administration at (202) 482–1900 for
assistance.
Attachment 1
PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2026 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN
Material
Unit
Quantity
Footnote
Potenial Disposals
Beryllium Metal .............................................................................................
Carbon Fibers ...............................................................................................
Chromium, Ferro ..........................................................................................
Chromium, Metal ..........................................................................................
Germanium ...................................................................................................
Manganese, Ferro ........................................................................................
Manganese, Metallurgical Grade .................................................................
Aerospace Alloys ..........................................................................................
Platinum ........................................................................................................
Iridium ...........................................................................................................
Quartz Crystals .............................................................................................
Tantalum .......................................................................................................
Tin .................................................................................................................
Titanium Based Alloys ..................................................................................
Tungsten Ores & Concentrates ...................................................................
Zinc ...............................................................................................................
ST .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
ST .....................................................
ST .....................................................
kg ......................................................
ST .....................................................
SDT ...................................................
Lbs ....................................................
Tr Oz .................................................
Tr Oz .................................................
Lbs ....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
Lbs W ...............................................
ST .....................................................
8
92,000
24,000
500
5,000
20,000
320,300
1,500,000
8,380
489
15,712
190
640
300,000
1,100,000
2,500
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(1)
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( 1)
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( 1)
( 1)
(1)
( 1)
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1,700
1,500
700
2,800
5,000
20,000,000
300,000
3,200
1,700
1,100
3,500
300
450
60
64,500
130
13,608
587,000
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Potenial Acquisitions
Aluminum (High Purity) ................................................................................
Aluminum Alloys ...........................................................................................
Antimony .......................................................................................................
Cadmium Zinc Tellurium ..............................................................................
Electrolytic Manganese Metal ......................................................................
Energetics .....................................................................................................
Ferroniobium ................................................................................................
Grain Oriented Electric Steel .......................................................................
Iso-Molded Graphite .....................................................................................
Lanthanum ....................................................................................................
Magnesium ...................................................................................................
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide ...............................................................
NdFeB Magnet Block ...................................................................................
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy .................................................................................
Tantalum .......................................................................................................
Tire Cord Steel .............................................................................................
Titanium ........................................................................................................
Tungsten .......................................................................................................
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MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
CM 2 ..................................................
MT .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
Lbs Nb ..............................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
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PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2026 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN—Continued
Material
Unit
Quantity
Zirconium-Hafnium .......................................................................................
MT .....................................................
Footnote
2,300
....................
50,000
198,000
8
600
1,000
5,000
35
5,000
200
1,700
50
12
875
13
48,000
5,000
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1,500,000
1,500
300
500
100
5,000
200
25
51,000
10
250
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(2)
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Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.)
Aerospace Alloys ..........................................................................................
Antimony .......................................................................................................
Beryllium Metal .............................................................................................
Boron Carbide ..............................................................................................
Cadmium Zinc Tellurium ..............................................................................
Carbon Fibers ...............................................................................................
Europium ......................................................................................................
Germanium ...................................................................................................
Iridium Catalyst .............................................................................................
Iso-Molded Graphite .....................................................................................
Lithium Ion Materials ....................................................................................
Rare Earths Elements ..................................................................................
Silicon Carbide Fibers ..................................................................................
SEG Concentrate .........................................................................................
Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB) .................................................................
Tungsten-Rhenium .......................................................................................
Lbs ....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
ST .....................................................
MT .....................................................
CM 2 ..................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
kg ......................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
kg ......................................................
Potential Recovery from Government sources
Aerospace Alloys ..........................................................................................
Battery Materials ..........................................................................................
Boron Carbide ..............................................................................................
Cobalt ...........................................................................................................
E-Waste ........................................................................................................
Germanium ...................................................................................................
Iridium Catalyst .............................................................................................
Magnesium Metal .........................................................................................
Rare Earths ..................................................................................................
Tantalum .......................................................................................................
Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Rods ...................................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
MT .....................................................
kg ......................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
Lbs ....................................................
MT .....................................................
kg ......................................................
Footnote Key:
1 Actual quantity will be limited to remaining excess inventory.
2 Strategic and Critical Materials collected from E-Waste (Strategic Materials collected from electronics waste).
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration.
recurrence of dumping and net
countervailable subsidies, and material
injury to an industry in the United
States, Commerce is publishing a notice
of continuation of these AD and CVD
orders.
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Truck and Bus Tires From People’s
Republic of China: Continuation of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Orders
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: As a result of the
determinations by the U.S. Department
of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC)
that revocation of the antidumping duty
(AD) and countervailing duty (CVD)
orders on truck and bus tires from the
People’s Republic of China (China)
would likely lead to the continuation or
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Applicable August 21, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Kolberg or Suresh Maniam, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–1785 or (202) 482–1603,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 15, 2019, Commerce
published in the Federal Register the
AD and CVD orders on truck and bus
tires from China.1 On January 2, 2024,
1 See Truck and Bus Tires from the People’s
Republic of China: Amended Final Determination
and Countervailing Duty Order, 84 FR 4434
(February 15, 2019); and Truck and Bus Tires from
the People’s Republic of China: Amended Final
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the ITC instituted,2 and Commerce
initiated,3 the first sunset review of the
Orders, pursuant to section 751(c) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
As a result of its reviews, Commerce
determined that revocation of the
Orders would likely lead to the
continuation or recurrence of dumping
and net countervailable subsidies, and
therefore, notified the ITC of the
magnitude of the margins of dumping
and subsidy rates likely to prevail
should the Orders be revoked.4
On August 21, 2024, the ITC
published its determination, pursuant to
sections 751(c) and 752(a) of the Act,
that revocation of the Orders would
Determination and Countervailing Duty Order, 84
FR 4434 (February 15, 2019) (collectively, Orders).
2 See Truck and Bus Tires from China; Institution
of Five-Year Reviews, 89 FR 93 (January 2, 2024).
3 See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 89
FR 66 (January 2, 2024).
4 See Truck and Bus Tires from the People’s
Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited
First Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order,
89 FR 31728 (April 25, 2024); and Truck and Bus
Tires from People’s Republic of China: Final Results
of the Expedited First Sunset Review of the
Countervailing Duty Order, 89 FR 31727 (April 25,
2024).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 240816-0219]
XRIN: 0694-XC107
Request for Public Comments on the Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Materials Plan From the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee
AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of inquiry; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee, co-
chaired by the Departments of
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Commerce and State, is seeking public comments on the potential market
impact of proposed changes to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Annual
Materials Plan (AMP). Potential changes to the AMP are decided by the
National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee, which advises the
Defense Logistics Agency in its role as the National Defense Stockpile
Manager on the projected domestic and foreign economic effects of all
acquisitions, conversions, and disposals involving the National Defense
Stockpile.
DATES: To be considered, written comments must be received by
September 30, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may be submitted to the Federal
rulemaking portal (www.regulations.gov). The regulations.gov ID for
this rule is: BIS-2024-0030. Please refer to XRIN 0694-XC107 in all
comments.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tosca Fischer, Office of Strategic
Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce, telephone: (202) 482-3528, (Attn: Tosca
Fischer), email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The federal government operates several different stockpiles that
are managed by different federal agencies depending on the stockpile's
purpose. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
manages the Strategic National Stockpile, which contains medicines and
medical equipment. HHS' stockpile may supplement medical
countermeasures needed by states, tribal nations, territories, and the
largest metropolitan areas during public health emergencies. Another
example is the Department of Energy's operation of the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve for use in the event the international oil market is
severely disrupted.
The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains a stockpile of critical
and strategic materials known as the National Defense Stockpile (NDS).
During a war or national emergency, this stockpile is meant to provide
strategic and critical materials to support national defense and
essential civilian requirements. The stockpile currently contains 61
materials (primarily minerals) that are deemed strategic and critical
to national security.\1\
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\1\ Defense Logistics Agency, ``Strategic Materials: Office,''
U.S. Department of Defense, https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/About.
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Under the authority of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock
Piling Revision Act of 1979, as amended (the Stock Piling Act) (50
U.S.C. 98 et seq.), the Department of Defense's Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) is the National Defense Stockpile Manager. The NDS is a
strategic stockpile, not an economic stockpile. It is not intended to
influence prices in the market or insulate private industry from supply
shocks. Rather, its purpose is to ensure the defense and essential
civilian industrial base has consistent access to the materiel it
needs--and the private industries making products have the raw
materials they need--during a war or national emergency.
Congress authorizes the sale of excess materials from the
stockpile, and proceeds from the sales are transferred to the National
Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. The NDS does not receive annual
appropriations in the defense budget for operational expenses. Instead,
the stockpile has a revolving fund in what the U.S. Treasury termed the
National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.\2\ Whenever materials in
the stockpile are sold, the proceeds from that sale are added to that
fund. The DLA then uses that money to pay for the operational expenses
accompanying the maintenance of the stockpile. Information about
stockpile disposals--what was sold and at what value it was sold--is
publicly available in monthly announcements published by the DLA.\3\
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\2\ Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act
of 1979, Public Law 96-41, p. 5.
\3\ https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Announcements/.
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Section 3314 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1993 (FY 1993 NDAA) (50 U.S.C. 98h-1) formally established a
Market Impact Committee (the Committee) to ``advise the National
Defense Stockpile Manager on the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions and disposals of materials from
the stockpile . . .'' The Committee must also balance market impact
concerns with the statutory requirement to protect the U.S. Government
against avoidable loss. See 50 U.S.C. 98e(b)(2).
The Committee is comprised of representatives from the Departments
of Commerce, State, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, the
Treasury, and Homeland Security. The FY 1993 NDAA directs the Committee
to consult with industry representatives that produce, process, or
consume the types of materials stored in the stockpile as the National
Defense Stockpile Manager. The DLA must produce an Annual Materials
Plan (AMP) proposing the maximum quantity of each listed material that
may be acquired, disposed of, upgraded, converted, recovered, or sold
by the DLA in a particular fiscal year. With this notice, Commerce, on
behalf of the DLA, lists the quantities and types of activity--
potential disposals, potential acquisitions, potential conversions
(upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.) or potential recovery (from
government sources) --associated with each material in its proposed FY
2026 AMP.
The quantities listed in Attachment 1 are not acquisition,
disposal, upgrade, conversion, recovery, reprocessing, or sales target
quantities, but rather a statement of the proposed maximum quantity of
each listed material that may be acquired, disposed of, upgraded,
converted, recovered, or sold in a particular fiscal year by the DLA.
The quantity of each material that will actually be acquired or offered
for sale will depend on the market for the material at the time of the
acquisition or offering, as well as on the quantity of
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each material approved by Congress for acquisition, disposal,
conversion, or recovery.
Additional Instructions for Comments
The Committee is interested in any supporting data and
documentation on the potential market impact of the quantities
associated with the proposed FY 2026 AMP.
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than submitting a digital copy with redactions applied, to avoid
inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the public to read
business confidential information.
Public comments will be available on regulations.gov, and the BIS
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website at https://efoia.bis.doc.gov/. This office does not maintain a separate public
inspection facility. If you have technical difficulties accessing this
website, please call BIS's Office of Administration at (202) 482-1900
for assistance.
Attachment 1
Proposed Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Materials Plan
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Material Unit Quantity Footnote
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Potenial Disposals
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Beryllium Metal................................ ST............................... 8 ............
Carbon Fibers.................................. Lbs.............................. 92,000 (\1\)
Chromium, Ferro................................ ST............................... 24,000 ............
Chromium, Metal................................ ST............................... 500 ............
Germanium...................................... kg............................... 5,000 ............
Manganese, Ferro............................... ST............................... 20,000 ............
Manganese, Metallurgical Grade................. SDT.............................. 320,300 (\1\)
Aerospace Alloys............................... Lbs.............................. 1,500,000 ............
Platinum....................................... Tr Oz............................ 8,380 (\1\)
Iridium........................................ Tr Oz............................ 489 (\1\)
Quartz Crystals................................ Lbs.............................. 15,712 (\1\)
Tantalum....................................... Lbs.............................. 190 (\1\)
Tin............................................ MT............................... 640 ............
Titanium Based Alloys.......................... Lbs.............................. 300,000 ............
Tungsten Ores & Concentrates................... Lbs W............................ 1,100,000 ............
Zinc........................................... ST............................... 2,500 ............
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Potenial Acquisitions
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Aluminum (High Purity)......................... MT............................... 1,700 ............
Aluminum Alloys................................ MT............................... 1,500 ............
Antimony....................................... MT............................... 700 ............
Cadmium Zinc Tellurium......................... CM \2\........................... 2,800 ............
Electrolytic Manganese Metal................... MT............................... 5,000 ............
Energetics..................................... Lbs.............................. 20,000,000 ............
Ferroniobium................................... Lbs Nb........................... 300,000 ............
Grain Oriented Electric Steel.................. MT............................... 3,200 ............
Iso-Molded Graphite............................ MT............................... 1,700 ............
Lanthanum...................................... MT............................... 1,100 ............
Magnesium...................................... MT............................... 3,500 ............
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide................... MT............................... 300 ............
NdFeB Magnet Block............................. MT............................... 450 ............
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy.......................... MT............................... 60 ............
Tantalum....................................... Lbs Ta........................... 64,500 ............
Tire Cord Steel................................ MT............................... 130 ............
Titanium....................................... MT............................... 13,608 ............
Tungsten....................................... Lbs W............................ 587,000 ............
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Zirconium-Hafnium.............................. MT............................... 2,300 ............
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Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.)
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Aerospace Alloys............................... Lbs.............................. 50,000 ............
Antimony....................................... Lbs.............................. 198,000 ............
Beryllium Metal................................ ST............................... 8 ............
Boron Carbide.................................. MT............................... 600 ............
Cadmium Zinc Tellurium......................... CM \2\........................... 1,000 ............
Carbon Fibers.................................. Lbs.............................. 5,000 ............
Europium....................................... MT............................... 35 ............
Germanium...................................... kg............................... 5,000 ............
Iridium Catalyst............................... Lbs.............................. 200 ............
Iso-Molded Graphite............................ MT............................... 1,700 ............
Lithium Ion Materials.......................... MT............................... 50 ............
Rare Earths Elements........................... MT............................... 12 ............
Silicon Carbide Fibers......................... Lbs.............................. 875 ............
SEG Concentrate................................ MT............................... 13 ............
Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB)................ Lbs.............................. 48,000 ............
Tungsten-Rhenium............................... kg............................... 5,000 ............
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Potential Recovery from Government sources
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Aerospace Alloys............................... Lbs.............................. 1,500,000 ............
Battery Materials.............................. MT............................... 1,500 ............
Boron Carbide.................................. MT............................... 300 ............
Cobalt......................................... MT............................... 500 ............
E-Waste........................................ MT............................... 100 (\2\)
Germanium...................................... kg............................... 5,000 ............
Iridium Catalyst............................... Lbs.............................. 200 ............
Magnesium Metal................................ MT............................... 25 ............
Rare Earths.................................... Lbs.............................. 51,000 ............
Tantalum....................................... MT............................... 10 ............
Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Rods................... kg............................... 250 ............
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Footnote Key:
\1\ Actual quantity will be limited to remaining excess inventory.
\2\ Strategic and Critical Materials collected from E-Waste (Strategic Materials collected from electronics
waste).
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-19422 Filed 8-28-24; 8:45 am]
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