Do hand tools exported from Jalandhar fall under EU CBAM?

No. Hand tools such as spanners, pliers and hammers are classified in Chapter 82, which is not in Annex I of the CBAM Regulation. Only iron and steel goods in Chapter 72 and headings 7301 to 7311, 7318 and 7326 are covered, so check the CN code your EU customer declares.

Covered iron and steel

• Chapter 72: iron and steel, including semis and flat or long products.
• 7301 to 7311: structures, tubes, containers and similar.
• 7318: screws, bolts and nuts.
• 7326: other articles of iron or steel.

Not covered

• 8201 to 8205: hand tools.
• 8207: interchangeable tools.

What buyers still ask

Buyers may still want a footprint per tool for their Scope 3. Keep forging fuel, electricity and steel purchase records so one can be built.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads the energy invoices behind the making stage into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, and keeps material invoices on the Scope 3 trail. Material factors come from your supplier or a named database and are labelled with their source, so the product figure can be traced line by line.

• Check a CN code
• Are nuts and bolts covered
• Ludhiana forging and CBAM

Sources: Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated, European Commission, CBAM definitive regime

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.