Is hot-rolled coil and plate under CN 7208 covered by CBAM?

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Yes. Flat-rolled iron or non-alloy steel, hot-rolled, 600 mm or wider, is CN 7208 and covered under the Chapter 72 line of Annex I. Direct emissions only. A rolling mill that buys slabs passes on the slab maker's figure as a precursor and adds its own reheating fuel. Yes. CN 7208 hot-rolled flat products 600 mm wide or more are covered. Narrower hot-rolled strip moves to 7211, also covered. Only direct emissions count for iron and steel. Crude steel (slab) you made or bought. A bought slab needs its maker's embedded emissions per tonne. Pig iron, DRI and the three covered ferro-alloys, if you make the steel yourself. The Commission sets default values by CN code and country of origin in the annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, with a mark-up that rises over the first years. We do not quote the figure here. Open the annex, find your code and India, and treat it as the number your buyer pays on if you send nothing usable. Direct embedded emissions per tonne of coil or plate, in tonnes of CO2, for the period the importer asks about. The production route and the installation's name, location and, if registered, its CBAM registry ID. Each precursor's embedded emissions and quantity per tonne, and who made it if you bought it. Whether a verifier accredited for CBAM has checked the figure. The importer can only use actual values that are verified. Leaving out the reheating furnace. Rolling mills burn natural gas, LPG or furnace oil to reheat slabs, and those are direct emissions of the rolling step. Add them to the slab figure, per tonne of coil shipped, allowing for yield loss.

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