# What if the CBAM default value table shows a dash for my product from India?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-india-default-value-shows-a-dash

Then the declarant must use the value from the table for other countries and territories in the same annex. A dash means the Commission found no reliable India data for that good. For India this applies to low-carbon ferro-chrome, calcined clay and some hydraulic cements.

## India entries shown as a dash

- CN 7202 49 ferro-chromium, 4% carbon or less
- CN 2507 00 80 80 calcined clay
- CN 2523 90 00 10 white hydraulic cement
- CN 2523 90 00 90 other hydraulic cements

## What the importer does

The authorised CBAM declarant uses the other countries and territories value for that CN code. Where the country of production of a precursor is unknown, Annex IV gives the highest default values, which must be used instead.

## What you can do

Offer a verified actual figure. For goods without an India value, the fallback is rarely favourable, so measured data has the most value here.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads coal, coke, gas, electricity and freight invoices into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so an actual figure you send an EU buyer can be traced back to the documents behind it. It does not file CBAM declarations.

- [Where to find default values](https://senseible.earth/answers/where-to-find-official-cbam-default-values)
- [Indian ferro-alloy defaults](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-default-value-india-ferro-alloys)
- [Calcined clay vs kaolin](https://senseible.earth/answers/cbam-cn-2507-calcined-clay-vs-kaolin)

Sources: [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), [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)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.