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What procurement teams need to verify before ordering neodymium magnets from China If you have sourced neodymium magnets from China for years without a customs issue, 2026 is a good time to review your purchasing and compliance process. NdFeB magnets have not been broadly banned from export. However, China introduced export controls in April 2025 covering specified medium and heavy

The heavy rare earth supply gap in 2026 is not a shortage of announcements. It is a shortage of qualified, scalable supply — particularly dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb) — outside China. That distinction matters for anyone sourcing high-performance NdFeB magnets. Standard NdFeB grades rely primarily on neodymium and praseodymium, while higher-temperature and higher-coercivity grades may use dysprosium or terbium, including

The US Just Backed $4.3 Billion in Rare Earth Deals in Five Weeks What the Funding Pace Actually Changes Money moved into the Western rare earth supply chain faster this summer than at any point we’ve covered so far. Between June 2 and June 26, 2026, the US government committed close to $2.9 billion in direct federal funding to rebuild

Last month we wrote about a broad rare earth price surge – all 18 tracked elements up, average gain of nearly 17 percent, and a real case for revisiting your quote timing before your next order. If you locked in a supply agreement or rushed a purchase order based on that trend, here’s the update worth reading: August didn’t continue

What It Means for How You Source Magnets For the past year, every rare earth headline has pointed in the same direction: China tightens, the world scrambles, prices move, buyers absorb the shock. But a growing thread of commentary is now asking a genuinely different question — does repeatedly using this leverage actually make it weaker over time? If every

Most industrial buyers of magnetic separation equipment have no reason to read defense procurement regulations. But there’s a rule taking effect in exactly five months that’s worth five minutes of attention anyway, because the reasoning behind it is about to reshape who can access “clean” rare earth magnet supply — and that reshaping won’t stay confined to defense contracts. The

If a quote for magnetic separation equipment came in higher than expected this month, or a supplier asked to requote a project that was priced only weeks earlier, there’s a straightforward explanation: July was one of the broadest rare earth price moves of the year. This isn’t a single-material spike or a one-off supply disruption — it’s a market-wide shift

There’s a deadline on the calendar that most industrial buyers haven’t priced into their sourcing plans yet: China’s suspension of its expanded rare earth export controls expires on November 10, 2026 — a little over three months from now. Unlike the sudden shutdowns and emergency scrambles that made headlines in 2025, this one comes with advance notice. The question isn’t