Anti-dumping duty recognises China’s control of the carbon mineral and its growing importance in the batteries powering the future
Before the US storm over Chinese graphite blew up, I had a serendipitous encounter this summer with graphite – that greasy, black, slippery, uncharismatic carbon cousin to diamonds. I never expected that a holiday soaking up the charms of Britain’s bucolic Lake District would alert me not just to the long and largely unnoticed history of graphite, but to its diverse and dual-use properties that drew more parallels between 16th century England and US President Donald Trump’s national security obsessions than I could have imagined.
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