# Are aluminium tubes and pipes under CN 7608 covered by CBAM?

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Yes. Aluminium tubes and pipes, CN 7608, are covered under the aluminium line of Annex I. Direct emissions only, CO2 and PFCs. Tube makers pass on the billet or coil maker's figure and add their own furnace fuel. Fittings for those tubes fall under 7609, also covered.

## Is it covered?

Yes. CN 7608 tubes and pipes and CN 7609 tube fittings are both covered. Hollow extruded profiles that are not tubes fall under 7604, also covered.

## Precursors to report

- Unwrought aluminium billet (7601), or strip (7606) for welded tube, with its maker's embedded emissions per tonne.

## Default value

The Commission sets default values by CN code and country of origin in the annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, with a mark-up that rises over the first years. We do not quote the figure here. Open the annex, find your code and India, and treat it as the number your buyer pays on if you send nothing usable.

## What to send your EU importer

- Direct embedded emissions per tonne of tube: CO2 from fuel and anodes, and PFCs from the smelter if you smelt.
- The installation's name, location and production route.
- Each precursor's embedded emissions per tonne and its supplier: unwrought aluminium, or alumina if you smelt.
- Whether a verifier accredited for CBAM has checked the figure.

## The common mistake

Ignoring extrusion scrap. Billet ends and cut-offs go back to the remelter, so a tonne of tube takes more than a tonne of billet. Scale the billet's figure by your actual input per tonne shipped.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and purchase invoices into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions an EU importer asks for. It does not file CBAM declarations or verify emissions.

- [Check if a CN code is covered](https://senseible.earth/answers/check-if-product-cn-code-covered-by-cbam)
- [Extruder buying smelter billets](https://senseible.earth/answers/extruder-buying-odisha-aluminium-cbam-calculation)
- [Aluminium fittings, tanks, cylinders](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-cn-7609-7611-7613-aluminium-fittings-tanks-cylinders)
- [Where official default values sit](https://senseible.earth/answers/where-to-find-official-cbam-default-values)

Sources: [Regulation (EU) 2023/956, Annex I (consolidated)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, methods and precursors](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1773/oj/eng), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, default values](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2621/oj/eng), [European Commission, CBAM definitive regime](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-definitive-regime_en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.