A metal cylinder coated with anisotropic ferrite material is analyzed using the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) in this paper, and the bistatic radar cross-section (RCS) is obtained. The new method of electromagnetic scattering by magnetized ferrite medium is analyzed in detail based on the FDTD. To exemplify the availability of the algorithm, bistatic RCS of a magnetized ferrite cylinder is computed, and the numerical results are the same as the shift operator FDTD (SO-FDTD), which shows that the proposed FDTD method is correct and efficient.