Which Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) default value applies to rebar, wire rod and hot-rolled coil from countries such as Egypt, Pakistan or the United Arab Emirates that have no steel row?
Where a good is not listed for the country of production, declarants use the other countries and territories value. Egypt, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates have no flat or long steel rows in the Commission's file, so hot-rolled flat steel takes 4.049 and wire rod and ribbed rebar 3.996 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per tonne.
What the file lists
Guidance No. 3 says the country tables cover circa 120 countries, but only goods found to be produced in that country and for which reliable data were available. The Commission's file has 121 country sheets. Hot-rolled flat steel (Combined Nomenclature (CN) 7208), wire rod (CN 7213) and threaded screws and bolts (CN 7318 15) appear on 32 of them. The other 89 sheets have no row for those codes, and none for any other iron or steel product, apart from some ferro-alloys under CN 7202 (and iron ore under CN 2601 12 00 for Angola).
Countries in the 89
The lists are examples taken from the file, not a full list of the 89.
- Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates have ferro-alloy rows only under chapter 72 and 73.
- Bahrain, Bangladesh, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia have no row under chapters 72 and 73 at all.
Which value applies
Guidance No. 3: where the CBAM good is not explicitly listed for the country of production, or the field shows a dash, declarants use the Other countries and territories table. If the country of production of a precursor cannot be identified, Annex IV applies instead.
- Hot-rolled flat steel, CN 7208: Other countries and territories 4.049
- Wire rod, CN 7213, and ribbed rebar, CN 7214 20 00: 3.996
- Threaded screws and bolts, CN 7318 15: 4.801
- Nuts, CN 7318 16: 4.693
How it compares with India
India's own values are higher than these fallbacks: 4.280 for CN 7208 (0.231 more), 4.270 for CN 7213 and ribbed rebar (0.274 more) and 5.720 for CN 7318 15 (0.919 more). Our reading: an Indian steel exporter is not helped by a competitor's missing row. The value for a missing row is a fallback the Commission set, and a verified actual figure from an Indian plant can come in under either.
100 tonnes of ribbed rebar imported in 2026 on default values
- Country with no row, so Other countries and territories: 3.996 x 1.10 = 4.3956 per tonne; x 100 = 439.56 tonnes of CO2e
- India: 4.270 x 1.10 = 4.697 per tonne; x 100 = 469.7 tonnes
- India against the no-row country: 469.7 minus 439.56 = 30.14 tonnes more
Our arithmetic from the Commission's listed values and the 10% mark-up for 2026 (Guidance No. 3), before the free allocation adjustment and any carbon price paid abroad. The Annex may show the per-tonne value rounded to three decimals, so a total read from it can differ slightly.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, which is the plant-side data behind an actual figure. It does not set default values, it is not a CBAM verifier and it does not file declarations.
- Hot-rolled coil defaults by country
- Wire rod: known or unknown origin
- When the table shows a dash
- Egyptian rebar mill and CBAM
- CBAM for Indian exporters
Sources: European Commission, CBAM default values for the definitive period (Excel, version 2 of 6 August 2026), country sheets, Other Countries and Territories and Annex IV; legally binding values are in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740 correcting (EU) 2025/2621, European Commission, Guidance No. 3, CBAM methods for the calculation of emissions embedded in goods (14 August 2026), section 4.10 on default values and mark-up
Last reviewed 2026-11-06. Values are from version 2 of the Commission's file (6 August 2026). The Commission says the default values act will be revised in 2027 at the latest, so re-check each value before you quote it to a buyer.