# What CBAM default value applies to stainless steel flanges and pipe fittings from India?

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Indian stainless steel flanges, elbows, butt-welding and other fittings under CN 7307 21 to 7307 29 carry a CBAM default of 4.810 t CO2e per tonne. Non-stainless forged flanges and fittings, 7307 91 to 7307 99, carry 4.280. Direct emissions only, before the 10% mark-up for 2026.

## India default values, t CO2e per tonne

- 7307 21 00 stainless flanges: 4.810
- 7307 22 stainless threaded elbows, bends and sleeves: 4.810
- 7307 23 stainless butt-welding fittings: 4.810
- 7307 29 other stainless fittings: 4.810
- 7307 91 00 flanges, not cast or stainless: 4.280
- 7307 92, 93 and 99 other non-stainless fittings: 4.280
- Indirect emissions: not applicable

## Mark-up on top

Default values are raised by a mark-up: 10% in 2026, 20% in 2027 and 30% from 2028. The same mark-up applies when a default is used for a precursor such as bar.

## The trap: a fitting default below the bar default

Indian stainless bar under 7222 carries 6.480, more than the 4.810 for the fitting made from it. If your bar supplier gives you no actual figure, its default goes into your calculation and your actual value can come out above the fitting default. In that case your buyer can simply use the default. An actual figure only pays off when the bar mill gives you its own.

## What to ask your bar or forging stock supplier

Verified embedded emissions per tonne, the mill and installation name, and the heat numbers that tie the figure to the bar you used. Without it, compare both routes before you promise a buyer a lower number.

## Example: one tonne of stainless flanges, 2026

- Bar used: 1.30 t per tonne of flanges
- Bar on its default: 1.30 x 6.480 x 1.10 = 9.27 t CO2e
- Flange default with mark-up: 4.810 x 1.10 = 5.29 t CO2e
- Here the default is lower, so an actual figure built on default bar does not help

Example yield. With a verified bar figure from the mill, rerun the first line.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads coal, coke, gas, electricity and freight invoices into a dated record per site, so an actual figure you send an EU buyer traces back to the documents behind it. We build it from your records, check every figure in-house, and an accredited verifier we partner with signs it off. Have your own verifier? Send it to them.

- [A flange unit's CBAM figure](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-steel-flanges-from-bought-billets)
- [Indian stainless defaults](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-default-value-india-stainless-steel)
- [Cast iron fitting defaults](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-default-value-india-cast-iron-pipe-fittings)
- [CBAM for Indian exporters](https://senseible.earth/cbam)

Sources: [European Commission, Default values definitive period (Excel, version 2 of 6 August 2026), India sheet; legally binding values in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740 correcting (EU) 2025/2621](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/1c05d211-80cb-4aaa-8ef0-e08005a95d7e_en?filename=DV%20correcting%20act_final%20update_06.08.xlsx), [European Commission, Guidance No. 3, CBAM methods for the calculation of emissions embedded in goods (14 August 2026), section 4.10](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/29b9eec7-1a4b-4eb6-ab85-96a0c9e35fd0_en?filename=Guidance%20No.%203%20-%20CBAM%20methods%20for%20the%20calculation%20of%20emissions%20embedded%20in%20goods.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-11-01.