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You share your factory data — any format
Electricity bills, fuel invoices, production logs, photos of paper records, ERP exports. A named CBAM expert collects, structures and queries the gaps directly with you.
Pre-verification · India · 2026
Verified actuals on day one. Not next April.
This quarter, CarbonSettle does your entire CBAM for you, free — and every report ships with independent EU-recognised pre-verification already attached. That pre-verification is the standard your report is built to: a top-3 EU auditor your buyer's Authorised Declarant already trusts, so your real emissions replace the EU default markup from day one. The report is yours to keep.
The whole pitch
“Your buyer's declarant accepts the report the first time they see it.”
How pre-verification works
Four steps. One named expert. One pre-verified report.
CarbonSettle owns every step end-to-end. Your factory data goes in; a declarant-ready, pre-verified EU XML comes out — typically in under 48 hours.
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We compute verified actual emissions
Scope 1, Scope 2 and precursor inputs, calculated on India-specific grid and process factors. The number is yours — defensible, not a borrowed default.
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We facilitate pre-verification by a top-3 EU auditor
The same audit name your buyer's Authorised Declarant already trusts. The report ships from CarbonSettle with the verification already attached.
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Your EU buyer's declarant accepts actuals on day one
Inflated EU default values are replaced by your verified actuals — across every shipment, all year — for up to 40% lower CBAM tax on your buyer's side.
Why
Why this is the only path that protects your EU orders all year.
The annual EU verifier audits last year
By the time the formal EU verifier signs off, the year is already over. Mid-cycle shipments fall back on EU defaults — and that's where the 30–40% markup hits your buyer.
Pre-verification fixes the timing
We attach an independent EU-recognised verification before each shipment leaves — so your buyer's declarant accepts the actuals immediately, not next April. Verified all year, not retroactively.
Why we built it this way
The annual verifier is too late. The defaults are too high. Pre-verification is the fix.
Under CBAM, the formal EU verifier signs off the previous year's reports — months after every shipment is gone. In between, your buyer's declarant has no choice but to fall back on EU default values, which are deliberately set high. That's the gap that costs Indian exporters their margins on every consignment.
CarbonSettle closes that gap by attaching independent, EU-recognised verification at the moment each report leaves us — so the verified actuals are usable on day one of every shipment, not retroactively.
“Without pre-verification, your buyer is paying the EU's worst-case markup on every container. With it, they pay your real number from day one.”
One CBAM reporting year — every shipment
EU default applied Verified actual applied
Without pre-verification
Formal EU verifier signs off here — ~April next year, long after the shipments are gone.
With CarbonSettle
Same audit standard, applied at the moment each report ships — so your buyer pays your real number from the first container, not the EU's worst-case markup for a year.
Frequently asked
Pre-verification, in plain English
What is CBAM pre-verification and why does it matter?
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CBAM pre-verification means an independent EU-recognised auditor checks your embedded emission numbers before each shipment's report is delivered to your EU buyer's Authorised Declarant — not at the end of the year when the formal annual EU verifier audits. Without pre-verification, mid-cycle shipments can default to inflated EU values.
Doesn't the EU's official verifier do this already?
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The official annual EU verifier audits the previous year's submitted reports — after the fact. That's necessary, but useless for protecting your shipments in-cycle. By the time their sign-off arrives, your buyer has already paid CBAM certificates based on EU defaults for every shipment that year. CarbonSettle's pre-verification fixes the timing — your actuals are EU-recognised at the moment each report leaves us.
Who is the EU auditor you facilitate pre-verification through?
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We work with one of the world's top-3 EU-recognised CBAM verification bodies — a name your buyer's declarant already trusts and works with. We disclose the exact relationship under NDA during the assessment call, because the legal scope of the engagement is what matters to your declarant, not the brand name on a website.
Will my EU buyer accept a CarbonSettle pre-verified report?
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Yes — that's the entire point of facilitating pre-verification through a top-3 EU auditor your buyer's declarant already trusts and works with. The report ships in EU CBAM XML format, with the verification statement attached, and our team coordinates directly with your buyer's Authorised Declarant on first delivery so there are no surprises.
How long does pre-verification add to my report turnaround?
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Zero, for the exporter. Pre-verification runs in parallel with our report generation; first reports are still delivered in under 48 hours of receiving your factory data. The verifier engagement is a CarbonSettle-side workflow you never see — you get a single deliverable: the verified report.
How much does this save on CBAM tax?
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For the documented India HRC scenario, replacing the EU default value with a 2.00 tCO2e/t actual scenario saves about €107K, or ₹96 lakh, per 1,000 tonnes at the official Q1 2026 CBAM price. Exact savings depend on your CN code, fuel mix, supplier inputs and route.
CBAM · Free this quarter
Your entire CBAM, done for you. Free this quarter.
We do your full CBAM free this quarter — built to the audit standard your buyer trusts, pre-verified before it ships. A 20-minute call shows you the real saving on your own shipments, in your language. No commitment beyond this quarter.
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