# Does a Ningxia silicomanganese exporter need to give CBAM data to EU buyers?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/ningxia-silicomanganese-exporter-cbam-check

No CBAM figure is due. Silicomanganese, declared under CN 7202 30, is not in Annex I; the only ferro-alloys covered are ferro-manganese, ferro-chromium and ferro-nickel. EU steelmakers may still ask for a product footprint, which is a commercial request.

## Covered and not covered

- Covered: ferro-manganese (7202 1), ferro-chromium (7202 4) and ferro-nickel (7202 6).
- Not covered: silicomanganese (7202 30), ferrosilicon (7202 21 and 7202 29) and other 7202 alloys.

## Why buyers still ask

EU steel mills build product footprints for their own customers and count purchased alloys in Scope 3. A footprint per tonne covering coke, electrodes and electricity answers that request.

## Plants that make both

If the same furnaces switch to ferro-manganese for EU orders, that product is covered. Keep production and fuel records per campaign so the covered product can be shown on its own.

## 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.

- [Is silico-manganese covered?](https://senseible.earth/answers/is-silico-manganese-covered-by-cbam)
- [Silico-manganese carbon per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/chhattisgarh-silico-manganese-carbon-per-tonne)
- [Ferro-alloy coke and coal records](https://senseible.earth/answers/ferro-alloy-plant-coke-and-coal-records)

Sources: [CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [European Commission, CBAM legislation and guidance](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-legislation-and-guidance_en), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1773/oj/eng)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.