How to provide CBAM data to an EU importer?

Non-EU suppliers must provide their EU importers with emissions data formatted specifically for the CBAM Transitional Registry. Carbon Mandate provides an expert-led service that takes your raw facility data, checks the methodology via human specialists, and generates the exact XML file your importer requires to clear customs.

What is the CBAM XML format generator for iron and steel?

The EU Commission requires CBAM data in a strict XML format. Rather than relying on automated software that can misinterpret heavy industry metrics, Carbon Mandate prepares registry-ready XML files for Iron, Steel, Aluminium, and Cement exporters through an expert-led, human-in-the-loop pipeline.

An EU importer is requesting CBAM data, what do I do?

Do not risk registry rejection with generic software. Upload your existing domestic certificates or raw facility data to Carbon Mandate for a diagnostic scan. We will map your data to the required CN codes and prepare the exact XML deliverable your EU buyer needs.

India · Exporter · CBAM

Indian exporters across four CBAM sectors — one XML pipeline

The EU importer’s registry submission only accepts an XSD-valid XML file. Carbon Mandate prepares that file from verified emissions data across India’s in-scope sectors — led by iron & steel and aluminium. We do not file — the importer files.

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Reg (EU) 2023/956 Annex I · IR (EU) 2025/2620 · IR (EU) 2025/2621

Republic of India

4 sectors in scope

IN coal-weighted national grid

4sectorsAnnex I scope

2.5%Phase-in 2026

€75.36/tCO₂eETS reference Q1 2026

30 Sep2027Surrender deadline

Sector exposure — four goods classes

IRON & STEEL

CN 72 · 73

India’s dominant CBAM-exposed export class — pig iron, hot-rolled and flat product, alloy and finished steel under Chapters 72 and 73.

Direct emissionsIndirect emissions

ALUMINIUM

CN 76

Primary and secondary aluminium under Chapter 76 — a coal-weighted smelting grid makes the indirect-emissions component large.

Indirect dominantGrid intensity

CEMENT

CN 25

Calcined clays, cement clinker, Portland and hydraulic cements under Chapter 25 (2507 · 2523) — clinker is the emission-dominant precursor.

Direct emissionsClinker basis

FERTILISERS

CN 28 · 31

Ammonia, nitric acid, urea and NPK fertilisers under Chapters 28 and 31 — precursor chemistry drives the declared figure.

N₂O emissionsPrecursor chain

CN scope per Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2023/956. One declaration pipeline covers all four classes — each goods line carries its own emissions basis, validated against the live DG TAXUD XSD before transmission.

Indirect emissions — Indian grid intensity

India’s coal-heavy grid makes the indirect component of steel and aluminium declarations materially large.

India~0.82 kg/kWh

EU avg~0.28 kg/kWh

France~0.06 kg/kWh

Illustrative — origin-country grid factor per Annex III IR (EU) 2025/2621

Across all four sectors, indirect emissions follow the carbon intensity of the electricity consumed in production — and for Indian installations that is a coal-weighted national grid, not a blanket EU default. That makes the indirect component of steel and aluminium declarations materially larger than for a low-carbon grid. The XML captures the origin-grid figure for the electricity actually drawn, so the declared embedded emissions reflect where the goods were made.

Where an installation cannot evidence an actual electricity emission factor, the declaration falls back to the origin-country grid factor under Annex III to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621 — a per-country value, never a single product default.

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