CN 7326 under CBAM — Other Steel Articles (Forged, Stamped & Fabricated)
Other articles of iron or steel
The great catch-all of steel articles — forgings, stampings, machined parts, clamps, brackets and fabricated components that fit no more specific heading. For India’s engineering-goods exporters (Pune, Ludhiana, Faridabad, Rajkot), CN 7326 covers an enormous slice of EU-bound trade — and many exporters searching “is 7326 covered by CBAM” are surprised to learn the answer is yes.
Where the emissions in CN 7326 come from
Whatever the part, the story is the same shape: steel bar, plate or coil arrives as a precursor carrying its route’s steelmaking emissions, and forging furnaces, presses and machining add your installation’s own energy. Defaults assume the conservative end of every link. The EU default value for this heading is deliberately conservative; for component makers, supplier steel data plus metered shop energy is a routinely better verified number.
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 7326? Three moves, in order.
- 01
Identify your production route and precursors
Inventory your product families and the steel behind each — bar, plate or coil, from which mills, off which routes — since each precursor line needs supplier data, then bound your forging/pressing/machining stages.
- 02
Collect the data you already have
Steel purchase records with traceability, forging furnace fuel logs, press and machine-shop electricity bills, heat-treatment records, despatch weights by family.
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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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