# Are aluminium pots, utensils and other household articles covered by the United Kingdom (UK) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/uk-cbam-aluminium-kitchenware-utensils-covered

Not on the list HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) prints for aluminium. It names headings 7601, 7603 to 7614 and 7616. Table, kitchen and household articles under heading 7615 are not named. Check the code with your buyer, because 7616, other articles of aluminium, is on the list.

## What HMRC's aluminium list names

- Headings 7601 (unwrought aluminium), 7603 to 7614, and 7616 (other articles of aluminium).
- These include powders and flakes (7603), bars, rods and profiles (7604), wire (7605), plates, sheets and strip (7606), foil (7607), and tubes and pipes (7608).
- HMRC's rule: goods in scope of the tax in the list include "the heading" and "sub-headings that are under the heading".
- Not named: heading 7602, aluminium waste and scrap, and heading 7615. HMRC's policy summary says imported scrap in the aluminium sector is outside the CBAM from 1 January 2027.

## What heading 7615 holds

Heading 7615 covers table, kitchen or other household articles and parts of aluminium, pot scourers and similar, and sanitary ware. The heading name is from the UK Trade Tariff, not from HMRC's CBAM pages.

A commodity code is like a shelf number in a library. The item is found by its number. HMRC's list names the shelf numbers that are in, and 7615 is not one of them.

## The catch-all that is named

Heading 7616, other articles of aluminium, is on the list. Our reading, not HMRC's: an article that is named in another heading, such as a household article in 7615, is classified there, not in 7616. If your product could fit more than one heading, the classification is the thing to settle first.

## What would change the answer

- A different code on the buyer's declaration. Ask for the 8-digit code it will use.
- A tariff change. HMRC says it will update codes "to maintain the product scope of CBAM" if the UK Tariff changes.
- Selling the metal itself. Sheet, strip, foil, wire or profiles are named headings.

## What to do

- Get the 8-digit code from your buyer's customs broker in writing before the first order.
- If a code is unclear, ask HMRC through its questions page.
- A buyer may still ask for a footprint for its own reports, even where the UK CBAM does not apply.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into dated, fingerprinted records. It does not set commodity codes or tell you whether a product is in the UK CBAM. Your buyer's customs broker, or HMRC, settles that.

- [Aluminium castings and fasteners](https://senseible.earth/answers/uk-cbam-aluminium-castings-fasteners-default)
- [Aluminium sheet and composite panels](https://senseible.earth/answers/uk-cbam-aluminium-sheet-acp-default)
- [Aluminium foil](https://senseible.earth/answers/uk-cbam-aluminium-foil-default)
- [Which listed code covers my code](https://senseible.earth/answers/uk-cbam-listed-code-covers-codes-below-it)
- [UK CBAM for Indian exporters](https://senseible.earth/uk-cbam)

Sources: [HMRC, Goods within the aluminium sector (updated 16 July 2026)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/check-which-goods-are-in-scope-of-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam/goods-within-the-aluminium-sector), [HMRC, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): Policy summary (updated 2 November 2026)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam-policy-summary/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam-policy-summary), [HMRC, Send HMRC questions about CBAM](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/send-hmrc-questions-about-the-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam), [UK Integrated Online Tariff, heading names for 7602 and 7615](https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. List checked against HMRC's aluminium scope page (updated 16 July 2026) and the policy summary annex (updated 2 November 2026). The reading that a household article classifies in 7615 and not 7616 is ours. Re-check each year. Heading names for 7602 and 7615 are from the UK Integrated Online Tariff.