Lately there is a lot of discussion of customers wanting the option for quality loudspeaker magnets manufactured outside of China. Much of the emerging non-China industry is not focused on loudspeaker magnets at this time. There are many challenges to achieving this outcome, including:   shape and grades variety, lower volumes per part number, shape plus energy product combination issues, capacity issues, costing issues, licensing issues, supplier quality system issues, supply chain sustainability, customer validation, cost and more. This talk will be from an end-user’s perspective.