CN 7306 under CBAM — Welded Tubes & Hollow Sections
Other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, welded, of iron or steel
ERW tubes, precision tubes and structural hollow sections up to 406.4 mm — India’s highest-volume welded-tube heading, produced from HR or CR strip by mills across the country and exported to EU construction, furniture, automotive and general engineering buyers.
Where the emissions in CN 7306 come from
An ERW mill’s own energy footprint is light; the strip it forms and welds is the precursor that carries the steelmaking emissions, off BF-BOF or the secondary route. Defaults ignore the strip’s real origin. The EU default value for this heading is deliberately conservative — tube makers with cooperative strip suppliers routinely have a much better verified number available.
Why we don’t print a default value here
The EU publishes and updates specific default values per goods category separately — quoting a stale number would mislead you. What never changes: defaults are set deliberately high, and the markup escalates from 10% in 2026 to 30% by 2028 for steel and aluminium (free-allowance phase-out runs to 2034). Use the CBAM calculator for a current, product-specific estimate.
Exporting under CN 7306? Three moves, in order.
- 01
Identify your production route and precursors
Identify your strip supply: which mills, which route, and whether galvanised feed or post-galvanising is involved — the strip is a precursor requiring supplier emission data.
- 02
Collect the data you already have
Strip purchase invoices with coil traceability, tube-mill electricity records, galvanising-bath fuel data where applicable, production logs by section size.
- 03
File verified actuals, not defaults
Have the numbers computed to the EU CBAM methodology and verified, then hand your EU buyer’s Authorised Declarant a filing they can use. Verified actuals typically cut the CBAM cost by up to ~40% versus default values — and the default markup only gets worse, escalating from 10% in 2026 to 30% by 2028 for steel and aluminium.
Free this quarter: We cover your first report (April–June 2026) so an inflated EU default never costs you an order. Continue only if you choose to. Free for the April–June 2026 quarter — start your report by 30 September 2026.
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