CN 7312Covered by CBAMIron & Steel

CN 7312 under CBAM — Wire Ropes & Strands

Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands and slings, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated

Wire ropes, stranded wire, cables and slings — lifting, mining, elevator and infrastructure rope. India’s rope makers, led by the eastern-belt producers around Ranchi and Kolkata, export engineered rope to EU industrial buyers where certification, traceability and now CBAM data are all part of the same qualification file.

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Covered

CBAM status of this heading

1 Jan 2026

Definitive phase — certificates due

€70–80

per tCO₂ — certificate price tracks EU ETS

up to ~40%

typical cost cut with verified actuals

Emission profile

Where the emissions in CN 7312 come from

Rope making — drawing, stranding, closing — adds moderate electrical energy on top of the wire rod precursor, which carries the steelmaking emissions of its route (BF-BOF or DRI + electric). Galvanised constructions add a coating stage. The EU default value for this heading is deliberately conservative; rod-mill precursor data plus your metered drawing energy usually tells a materially better story.

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.

What to do

Exporting under CN 7312? Three moves, in order.

01
Identify your production route and precursors
Trace the rod: which mills supply your wire rod and off which route — that precursor dominates the number. Note galvanising (own bath or purchased galvanised wire) as an additional stage or precursor.
02
Collect the data you already have
Rod purchase records with traceability, drawing and stranding electricity bills, galvanising fuel data, patenting furnace records where used, production logs by construction.
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.

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Frequently asked

CN 7312 and CBAM, in plain English

Is CN 7312 covered by CBAM?

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Yes. CN 7312 — stranded wire, ropes and cables of steel (not electrically insulated) — is a covered good under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Any consignment under this heading imported into the EU has carried reporting obligations since the transitional phase (1 October 2023 – 31 December 2025), and since the definitive phase began on 1 January 2026 the EU importer must buy CBAM certificates against its embedded emissions. Lifting and structural rope, strand for pre-stressing, and slings all import under this heading.

How much CBAM cost does CN 7312 face in 2026?

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CBAM certificates track the EU ETS carbon price — roughly €70–80 per tonne of CO₂ in 2026 — so the bill is your embedded emissions multiplied by that price. For Indian BF-route steel products the difference between bases is dramatic: default-basis costs run roughly €250–270 per tonne of product, versus roughly €65–170 per tonne on verified actuals — about €80,000–€180,000 on a single 1,000-tonne consignment. The exact figure depends on your route and product mix, which is why the first step is a proper calculation, not a guess.

Is pre-stressing strand for EU construction covered the same way?

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Yes — PC strand is stranded wire under CN 7312 and fully within CBAM scope. Construction buyers evaluate it on delivered cost per tonne, so the defaults-vs-actuals gap shows up directly in tender comparisons. A strand maker whose rod chain is documented and verified quotes with a structurally lower landed cost than one leaving the buyer on defaults.

We both draw our own wire and buy some drawn wire in. How does the calculation handle that?

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Each stream is bounded separately: self-drawn wire carries your rod precursor plus your drawing energy; purchased wire arrives as a precursor with its supplier’s embedded emissions (or defaults if the supplier won’t engage). The rope’s final figure weights the streams by actual usage. Your production records already contain the split — the work is assembling it into the methodology’s format, which is what we do.

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