# Will Turkey's emissions trading system reduce CBAM costs for Turkish exporters?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/turkey-ets-pilot-cbam-deduction

Only to the extent a carbon price is actually paid. Turkey's climate law sets up an emissions trading system that starts with a pilot phase, and allowances in early phases are expected to be largely free. Free allowances give nothing to deduct; paid allowances can count, with proof.

## What can be deducted

Under Article 9, the EU declarant can claim the carbon price effectively paid in Turkey for the embedded emissions, net of free allocation and any compensation.

## What to do now

- Align the monitoring plan required by the Turkish system with your CBAM monitoring, so one data set serves both.
- Keep allowance purchase and surrender records by installation.
- Arrange an independent certification of the amount attributable to EU exports.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads coal, coke, gas and electricity invoices and production records into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so the direct emissions behind each tonne can be traced to the documents. Emissions factors outside India are entered from the official source and labelled.

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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), [European Commission, price of CBAM certificates](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/price-cbam-certificates_en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.