# Does the CBAM 50 tonne exemption cover hydrogen imported into Antwerp?

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No. The 2025 simplification exempts importers bringing in 50 tonnes or less a year of covered goods, but hydrogen and electricity are excluded from that exemption. Any hydrogen import, however small, needs an authorised declarant, its direct embedded emissions and certificates.

## How the threshold works

Regulation (EU) 2025/2083 replaced the old per-consignment value threshold with a yearly mass threshold per importer: up to 50 tonnes of covered goods a year in total is exempt. Hydrogen and electricity do not count towards it and are not exempted by it.

## What counts for hydrogen

Hydrogen under CN 2804 10 00 is charged on direct emissions only. For hydrogen made from natural gas, that is the CO2 from reforming and fuel; electricity used in electrolysis is indirect and not charged under Annex II today.

## Ammonia as a hydrogen carrier

Ammonia imported as a hydrogen carrier is its own CBAM good under 2814 and does count towards the 50 tonne threshold. Large cargoes exceed it in any case.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible's CBAM cost calculator estimates certificate cost from 2026 to 2034 for covered goods, and non-EU suppliers can use Senseible to keep document-backed fuel and electricity records to share with you. Senseible does not file CBAM declarations or verify emissions.

- [The 50 tonne exemption](https://senseible.earth/climate-intelligence/cbam-50-tonne-exemption)
- [Grid hydrogen carbon intensity](https://senseible.earth/answers/grid-electricity-hydrogen-carbon-intensity)
- [German chemical park imports](https://senseible.earth/answers/german-chemical-park-imports-covered-by-cbam)

Sources: [Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, CBAM simplification](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/2083/oj), [Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [European Commission, CBAM definitive regime](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-definitive-regime_en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.