What CBAM costs your buyer on default values.
Pick your iron or steel product and the tonnes your EU buyer imports. The estimate uses India's default values, the figure your buyer must use when you give no verified data.
7207 11 14 · Semi-finished products, of iron or non-alloy steel, containing by weight < 0,25%
On your own verified data the certificates depend on your process. In our two worked examples they fell by 87% (billets) and 18% (hex bolts).
An estimate on India's default values (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621) and the default free allocation (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2620), at the Q3 2026 certificate price for every year. Certificates are due only if the importer's imports of iron and steel, aluminium, cement and fertiliser goods exceed 50 tonnes (net mass) in the year, and at the price of their period.
Bringing the number down
Your installation's verified emissions replace the default. Our CBAM data pack prepares them in the official EU template for your buyer and your verifier, and the guide for Indian steel exporters works through two examples, a billet mill and a bolt maker.
Frequently asked questions
What does this estimate show?
The CBAM certificates an EU importer must surrender for one tonne of your product when it has no verified data from your installation: India's default value with the year's mark-up, less the default free allocation, priced at the latest published certificate price.
Why would my own data cost my buyer less?
India's default values describe a country average with a mark-up of 10% in 2026, 20% in 2027 and 30% from 2028. Verified actual emissions from your installation replace them, and the free allocation then follows your own production route's benchmark in place of the default one. Your buyer saves certificates when your emissions less that allocation come out below the default value less the default allocation.
Who pays for the certificates?
The authorised CBAM declarant: the EU importer, or an indirect customs representative acting for it. The exporter's part is the data, which is why the default-value cost is part of the price conversation with your buyer.