What if the CBAM default value table shows a dash for my product from India?
Then the declarant must use the value from the table for other countries and territories in the same annex. A dash means the Commission found no reliable India data for that good. For India this applies to low-carbon ferro-chrome, calcined clay and some hydraulic cements.
India entries shown as a dash
- CN 7202 49 ferro-chromium, 4% carbon or less
- CN 2507 00 80 80 calcined clay
- CN 2523 90 00 10 white hydraulic cement
- CN 2523 90 00 90 other hydraulic cements
What the importer does
The authorised CBAM declarant uses the other countries and territories value for that CN code. Where the country of production of a precursor is unknown, Annex IV gives the highest default values, which must be used instead.
What you can do
Offer a verified actual figure. For goods without an India value, the fallback is rarely favourable, so measured data has the most value here.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads coal, coke, gas, electricity and freight invoices into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so an actual figure you send an EU buyer can be traced back to the documents behind it. It does not file CBAM declarations.
Sources: European Commission, Guidance No. 3, CBAM methods for the calculation of emissions embedded in goods (14 August 2026), section 4.10, European Commission, Default values definitive period (Excel, version 2 of 6 August 2026), India sheet; legally binding values in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740 correcting (EU) 2025/2621
Last reviewed 2026-10-23.