# What goes into the CBAM figure for high-carbon ferrochrome from Inner Mongolia?

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Direct emissions only: carbon from coke and other reductants, electrode paste and any fuel, worked out by mass balance. Ferro-chromium under CN 7202 4 is covered, but the large electricity use of the furnaces is not counted, even where it comes from coal.

## What counts

- Carbon in coke, semi-coke and coal charged to the furnace, less carbon leaving in the alloy and slag.
- Electrode paste consumed.
- Fuel used for drying or preheating ore.

## What does not

Electricity is an indirect emission, and for iron and steel goods, which include ferro-alloys, only direct emissions are charged. It still belongs in any product footprint a buyer asks for.

## Records to keep

- Reductant purchases with carbon content from lab tests.
- Alloy output and its carbon content.
- Slag tonnage and carbon analysis.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and production documents into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions an EU importer asks for.

- [Ferrochrome CO2 per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/ferrochrome-co2-per-tonne-cbam)
- [High-carbon vs low-carbon ferrochrome](https://senseible.earth/answers/high-carbon-vs-low-carbon-ferrochrome-cbam)
- [Odisha ferrochrome captive power](https://senseible.earth/answers/odisha-ferrochrome-captive-power-cbam)

Sources: [CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1773/oj/eng), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.