CN 7606 under CBAM — Aluminium Sheets & Plates
Aluminium plates, sheets and strip, thickness > 0.2 mm
Rolled aluminium — plates, sheets, coils and strip above 0.2 mm — for transport, packaging, construction and general engineering. India’s rolling majors (Hindalco’s complexes among them) and independent re-rollers export to EU converters and fabricators. Thinner product becomes foil under CN 7607.
Where the emissions in CN 7606 come from
Rolling adds real but secondary energy (hot mills, annealing); the slab or coil feedstock carries the smelting emissions — coal-power primary at 14–18 tCO₂/t, hydro at 4–7, scrap-based at 0.5–1.5. The EU default value for this heading is deliberately conservative; integrated producers with hydro assets and re-rollers running high recycled content both stand to gain visibly from verified actuals.
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 7606? Three moves, in order.
- 01
Identify your production route and precursors
Establish the metal source — own smelter (document its power), purchased slab/coil (a precursor needing supplier data), or remelt with scrap share — then bound your rolling and finishing stages.
- 02
Collect the data you already have
Hot- and cold-mill energy records, annealing furnace fuel logs, metal sourcing documentation, remelt charge registers, production weights by gauge.
- 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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