Batteries: tax, tariff and buying rules
9 steps on record since Dec 2022: 4 aimed at another country, 5 rules at home. 3 restrictive steps in force or suspended count on the map.
Updated 3 Nov 2026 · Fair; 2 low confidence, 2 not read in the source
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EU puts back battery supply-chain due-diligence duties by two years, to August 2027
Eases Rule at home Not read in the source
Regulation (EU) 2025/1561 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards the obligations of economic operators concerning due diligence policyThe official site refused our reader, so this row rests on the drafted summary until a person opens the text.
Aimed at: No other country: a rule at home · Export or import rule · In force, in force 31 Jul 2025; due-diligence duties from 18 Aug 2027
Source: Regulation (EU) 2025/1561 English text Medium confidence
Battery cathode material preparation technology added to China's restricted technology exports; lithium-extraction control points added to an existing item
商务部 科技部公告2025年第28号 关于调整发布《中国禁止出口限制出口技术目录》的公告Aimed at: all destinations · Licensing · In force, in force on issue
Source: MOFCOM-MOST Announcement No. 28 of 2025 Chinese text Medium confidence
China proposes adding battery cathode preparation technology and lithium-extraction technology to its restricted technology exports
关于《中国禁止出口限制出口技术目录》调整公开征求意见的通知Aimed at: all destinations · Licensing · Proposed, consultation; final text issued 15 Jul 2025 (N31)
Source: Xinhua report on the MOFCOM consultation Chinese text secondary source only: a news or law-firm note Low confidence
Korea names a high-nickel battery precursor technology a national core technology: a foreign takeover of its holder needs government approval
Rule at home
국가핵심기술 지정 통보 (이차전지 전구체)Aimed at: No other country: a rule at home · Export or import rule · In force, notified 14 Nov 2024
Source: Daum news report Korean text secondary source only: a news or law-firm note Low confidence
US tariff on Chinese lithium-ion EV batteries set at 25%, other lithium-ion batteries at 25% from 2026
Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and InnovationAimed at: China · Other · In force, from 27 Sep 2024; other batteries from 1 Jan 2026
Source: Federal Register 2024-21217 English text
EU Net-Zero Industry Act: batteries named a net-zero technology; public buyers and auctions must weigh supply resilience where one country supplies over half, or a fast-rising share
Rule at home Not read in the source
Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act)The official site refused our reader, so this row rests on the drafted summary until a person opens the text.
Aimed at: No other country: a rule at home · Other · In force, in force 29 Jun 2024
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 English text Medium confidence
Defense Department barred from buying batteries from six named producers and their successors (FY2024 defense law, section 154)
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31), section 154Aimed at: China · Other · In force, bar applies from 1 Oct 2027; waiver possible
Source: Public Law 118-31 English text
EU Batteries Regulation: sustainability, safety, labelling and supply-chain due-diligence duties on all batteries sold in the EU
Rule at home
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542Aimed at: No other country: a rule at home · Export or import rule · In force, in force 17 Aug 2023; applies in stages
Source: Commission page on batteries English text
Japan names storage batteries a specified critical product under its economic security law, with supply-security support
Rule at home
Official title not yet availableThe cabinet order was not read.Aimed at: No other country: a rule at home · Other · In force, designated December 2022
Source: METI White Paper 2023, section 2-1-2 English text Medium confidence
Linked, not counted here
- Rare-earth, magnet-technology, battery and superhard-material controls (Nos. 55-58, 61, 62) 9 Oct 2025 · on the tracker, counted there
Batteries power cars, grids and weapons. Governments now set rules on who may make them, sell them and buy them. This page lists those official actions since 2018: export licences, purchase bans, tariffs, tax-credit rules and supply-chain duties. Each action shows who acts, what it covers, the country it is aimed at, its date and its status. Controls on the minerals inside batteries, such as graphite and lithium, sit with critical minerals. Where one act covers both, we count it once.
- Rule at home
- Aimed at no other country. Listed here, never counted on the map or in a tally.
- Low confidence
- Rests on a secondary source, such as a news report or a law-firm note.
- Not read in the source
- The official site refused our reader; a person has yet to open the text.
How this area is counted
- What counts
- An official act by a government that limits or eases the making, sale, export, import or purchase of batteries, battery cells, battery parts (cathodes, anodes, separators) or the technology and equipment to make them. That includes export licensing, technology export catalogues, defence purchase bans, tariffs aimed at named countries, tax-credit rules that exclude entities of named countries, and supply-chain duties on all batteries sold in a market.
- What does not count
- Controls on the raw or refined minerals themselves (lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel, manganese): these stay in the critical minerals family. Trade remedies such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties. Subsidies with no condition on country of origin. Company announcements, plant openings and industry guidance that binds no one.
- One act, one row
- Some acts cover minerals and batteries together, such as China's October 2025 bundle. We count such an act once, in the family of its main subject, and show it on the other page as a cross-reference that is not counted.
- Rules at home
- A rule aimed at no other country, such as a domestic safety standard or an export tax rebate change, shows on this page with a "Rule at home" mark. It is not in the map's tallies.
- Sources checked
- The US Federal Register, Congress.gov, the IRS and the Office of the US Trade Representative; China's Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; the EU Official Journal (EUR-Lex) and the European Commission; Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Korea's trade and industry ministry. Where only a report is found, the row carries a low-confidence mark.
- Checked less often
- Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Their battery rules are found mostly through reports, so actions there may reach the page later.
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Sources: each government’s own publication, linked on every row with its language; where a government text could not be read, the press or a law-firm summary, marked low confidence. Rule level only: no firm or person is named.