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Sojitz is a Japanese general trading company (sogo shosha). In critical minerals it works as an upstream intermediary and investor, not a manufacturer. It is the exclusive Japanese distributor for Brazil's CBMM and handles over 90% of the niobium products brought into Japan, mainly for steelmakers.
Named counterparties identified by open-source research and written only where a primary source states the relationship — never inferred from sector or co-mention. 1 supplier. This is a partial view: it covers the relationships we could evidence, not the company's full supply base.
Sojitz states it 'now handles over 90% of the total niobium brought into Japan as CBMM's distributor for niobium products to Japanese steel manufacturers and other consumers' and that 'the niobium products are transported by ship from Brazil, and the cargo takes roughly two months to arrive in Japan.' CBMM mine and ferroniobium plant = Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil; delivery to Japan. No volume or value stated. related_party: true because Sojitz holds 2.5% of CBMM via the 2011 Japan-Korea consortium.
Scope. Absence of a counterparty here is not evidence that none exists — most commercial sourcing is confidential and never becomes public. Rows without a share figure mean no share was disclosed, not that the relationship is small.
Another tracked dossier names this company as a counterparty in its own sourced disclosure — this platform never wrote these rows on this company's own page, they are read here inverted from the dossier that disclosed them. This is a partial view: 982 additional named-counterparty rows across the corpus could not be matched to a tracked dossier by name at all (mostly non-Latin legal names), so the true count is higher than what renders here.
Sojitz states it 'now handles over 90% of the total niobium brought into Japan as CBMM's distributor for niobium products to Japanese steel manufacturers and other consumers' and that the products 'are transported by ship from Brazil'. Origin Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil; destination Japan. No volume or value stated. Sojitz holds 2.5% of CBMM via the 2011 consortium.
Scope. This section is inverted evidence: each linked dossier wrote the original row about itself, describing its own relationship to this company. It is never a claim this company itself disclosed. Absence here is not evidence of no relationship — most of the corpus has no named-counterparty block at all yet.
This company sits on the supply side for 4 of its 4 materials — a restriction on those is a tailwind, not a headwind.
Dossier discloses a dysprosium, terbium or samarium material exposure directly — A61 §1(2) names Dy/Tb-containing NdFeB and SmCo magnets by element.
A61's suspension (Announcement 70) lapses 10 Nov 2026 — on the plain text, controls revive automatically. The US DoD CN/RU/IR/KP sourcing bar follows 1 Jan 2027. See the underlying extraterritorial export-control action. We supply the provenance file; we never compute your ratio for you.
As a producer, policy pressure across its produced materials is rising.
Descriptive trend in official policy actions on this company’s materials — a policy-pressure trend, not a price or trading signal. No forward probability is implied. Direction is measured on actions we have discovered, and discovery lags events: where the recent window is too thin to support a calm reading, the row says coverage-limited instead of easing.
🇺🇸 US accounts for 100% of severity-weighted pressure.