Your EU buyer needs your carbon per tonne.
Send it, or they pay on a standard figure for India. First declaration is due 30 September 2027.
A mileage sticker for your metal's carbon.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) per tonne you ship. The European Union scheme, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), calls it embedded emissions.
Who files, who pays, what is covered
Who files
Your buyer, the EU importer, once a year.
Who pays
Your buyer, on the tonnes it imports once it brings in more than 50 tonnes a year. You feel it in the price talk.
Who knows the truth
Only you. Your furnace, your bills, your tonnes.
Covered
Iron and steel, including wire rod, bars, sections, pipes and bolts. Aluminium, including unwrought metal, bars, profiles, plates, sheets, foil up to 0.2 mm and wire.
Not covered
Some finished articles: nails, ropes, mesh, chains and springs, and household aluminium articles. The eight digit code on your invoice decides, so agree it with your buyer.
Whose number does your buyer use?
Tap what you have. The standard figure is the hotel rack rate: what you pay with no booking.
Re-rolling mill
- Furnace fuel bills: Counts. Your own direct part. Furnace oil, coal or gas burnt in the reheating furnace, with dates and quantities. Purchase bills and weighbridge slips both work.
- Billet supplier letter: Counts. Carries most of the result. Your billet supplier’s carbon per tonne, with the year. Without it your buyer uses a standard figure for the billet part.
- Billet received register: Counts. Tonnes you rolled. How many tonnes of billet went through the mill in the period. It multiplies the supplier’s figure.
- Tonnes of bar made: Counts. The number you divide by. Production register by item and eight digit code, so covered and uncovered goods stay apart.
- Power bills: Set aside. Stays out of the steel figure. The rolling stands run on grid power. For steel goods your buyer’s figure leaves electricity out. Keep the bills: larger customers and banks ask for them.
Melting shop
- Ladle and preheat fuel bills: Counts. Your own direct part. Oil, gas or coal burnt on site for preheating and holding, with dates and quantities.
- Electrodes, lime and alloy purchases: Counts. Keep the purchase record. Which of these count is set in your plant’s method with your verifier. The record has to exist first.
- Pig iron or pellet supplier letter: Counts. Bought in, so asked from the seller. Bought pig iron or pellets carry the seller’s own carbon per tonne. Ask for it in writing, with the year.
- Tonnes of billet or ingot made: Counts. The number you divide by. Production register by grade and eight digit code.
- Furnace power bills: Set aside. Stays out of the steel figure. Induction and arc furnaces run on electricity. For steel goods your buyer’s figure leaves it out. Keep the bills: your own customers and lenders may still ask.
Aluminium
- Melting and homogenising fuel bills: Counts. Your own direct part. Oil, gas or wood burnt in melting, homogenising and ageing, with dates and quantities.
- Billet letters, primary or secondary: Counts. Split by type where known. Each billet supplier’s carbon per tonne, and whether the metal is primary or secondary. The mix shapes your profile’s figure.
- Scrap weighbridge slips: Counts. Clean tonnes in. Scrap itself carries no upstream emissions, which is why remelted metal tends to come out lower. The slips prove the tonnes.
- Tonnes made by code: Counts. The number you divide by. Output by eight digit code: bars, profiles, sheet, foil or wire.
- Power bills: Set aside. Stays out of the aluminium figure. Electricity is not counted for aluminium goods. Keep the bills for buyers and lenders who ask.
What silence costs you
- You send nothing. Your buyer pays on the standard figure for every tonne. A cleaner plant pays for carbon it never made.
- Your buyer sees the gap. They ask you to cut your price, or look at a mill that sent a number.
- Waiting does not help. The extra on the standard figure grows over the first years, so silence gets harder to defend.
The standard figure is set so it never understates. A plant with good records usually comes in lower.
Your number from your bills.
- Pick a year.
- Add fuel you burn: litres times factor.
- Add bought-in billet: tonnes times supplier figure.
- Divide by tonnes made.
Worked example and notes
Example: a re-rolling mill, per tonne of bar
30 L x 2.97 = 89.1 kg = 0.0891 t CO2 per tonne of bar from the furnace
Then add your billet supplier’s figure for the billet in each tonne of bar.
The 30 litres and the factor of 2.97 kg CO2 per litre are examples. Use your own litres and the factor your tool shows.
Many Mandi Gobindgarh mills burn coal in the furnace instead. Coal bills go in the same way, with the coal's own factor. Electricity bills stay out of the steel and aluminium figure. Keep them: larger customers and banks ask.
A verifier signs it off.
Senseible builds the verifier-ready file and checks every figure in-house; an accredited verifier Senseible partners with signs it off, or the client sends it to their own.
Why this is not the same check
Actual figures need verification by an accredited verifier before an importer can use them for the definitive regime. The in-house check is not that verification. It is what makes the file ready for it.
Start with one fuel bill.
About finance
Senseible connects your verified record to its financing partners for loans, credits and grants. Senseible does not lend. The partner decides, and nothing is guaranteed.