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What does CBAM actually require from you?
Embedded emissions per shipment, per product, defensible on request. Default values are the expensive option.
Actual data costs less than default values
When actual embedded emissions are not supplied, an importer falls back to default values. Those defaults are conservative by design, which means high by design — and the cost attaches to your goods.
Supplying verified actual figures is the cheaper answer. It becomes cheaper still when you can produce them on demand instead of assembling a spreadsheet for each shipment.
Reporting your importer can use
Embedded emissions are calculated per product, direct and indirect, in the structure the EU communication template expects, and the export is schema-validated before it leaves the system.
A shipment sits on top of the product: its embedded emissions are the quantity-weighted sum of the products inside it, derived from the same per-product figure. You calculate once per product and never recalculate per shipment — the two cannot diverge, because one follows from the other.
Each figure carries its own receipt, so a question about one product does not turn into an audit of your entire inventory. Your importer can verify that receipt in their own browser — without asking you, and without us confirming it.
For CBAM-covered goods
Covered product groups
Iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity.
Per-product embedded emissions
Direct and indirect, calculated to the CBAM structure.
Schema-validated export
Structured output, validated before submission.
Precursor handling
Purchased precursors mapped from your Scope 3 data.
Cost exposure modelling
What-if analysis on the carbon cost attached to your goods.
A receipt per figure
Each number independently checkable by your importer.
FAQ
Who actually has the CBAM obligation — us or our customer?
The EU importer. If you produce outside the EU, CBAM does not name you; it names the company bringing your goods in.
That is why it reaches you as a questionnaire rather than a regulatory letter. Your customer has to declare the embedded emissions of what they import and hold evidence for the figure, and they cannot do either without you.
Our product is not on the CBAM list. Does that mean nothing changes?
For CBAM, yes — the scope is a fixed list in Annex I, and if your goods are not on it the mechanism does not attach to them.
It rarely means nothing changes. EU customers subject to CSRD have to report their own Scope 3, and the largest part of that is what they buy. The request arrives through procurement instead of customs.
How much would default values cost us compared with actual data?
We do not publish a figure for that, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does without seeing your production.
The gap depends on two things: the default the Commission sets for your goods, and your actual emissions intensity. Both are needed. What is generally true is that defaults are set conservatively so that missing data is never the cheaper option.
When does CBAM start costing money rather than paperwork?
In the transitional period the obligation is to report. In the definitive regime the importer must also surrender certificates for the emissions declared.
Dates have been amended since the Regulation was adopted. Rather than quote one here that may age badly, we track what the EU actually publishes and link the official text — see the regulation radar.
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