# What goes into the CBAM figure for ferrochrome from an Aktobe or Aksu smelter?

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Direct emissions from the carbon in coke, coal and electrodes, plus any fuel burnt for pre-heating or drying, worked out by mass balance and divided by tonnes of alloy. Power from Kazakhstan's coal plants is indirect and not charged for ferro-alloys, though steel buyers will ask for it separately.

## Inputs to balance

- Coke and coal used as reductant in the electric furnaces.
- Electrode paste.
- Fuel for chrome ore pellet sintering or pre-heating kilns, if inside the installation.
- Carbon leaving in alloy, slag and dust.

## CN codes

High carbon ferrochrome is declared under 7202 41 and other ferrochrome under 7202 49. Both are iron and steel goods, charged on direct emissions.

## What a stainless mill will add

Electricity per tonne, because the coal heavy grid makes it the largest share of the product footprint even though CBAM leaves it out.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads coal, coke, gas and electricity invoices and production records into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so the direct emissions behind each tonne can be traced to the documents. Emissions factors outside India are entered from the official source and labelled.

- [Ferrochrome CO2 per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/ferrochrome-co2-per-tonne-cbam)
- [High vs low carbon ferrochrome](https://senseible.earth/answers/high-carbon-vs-low-carbon-ferrochrome-cbam)
- [Kazakhstan ETS and CBAM](https://senseible.earth/answers/kazakhstan-ets-carbon-price-cbam-deduction)

Sources: [CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, CBAM default values](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2621/oj/eng), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.