CBAM is a cost risk with a deadline. Treat it like one.
You do not need to know what a CN code is. You need to know whether CBAM is a five-figure or a six-figure matter, when it starts to hit cash, and who owns it in-house. Those are the three answers we deliver.
Management summary, one page
Three reasons not to push this to 2027
The cost applies retroactively
Certificates are not sold until 2027. But they apply to imports from 2026. Whoever records nothing now cannot later show what would have eased the bill.
Default values are the expensive option
Without real supplier data, conservative default values apply, and they rise over the years by design. Collecting the data takes weeks. It is best started long before the first settlement.
Declarant status needs lead time
Above the threshold, only a registered authorised CBAM declarant may import. That is an application with a processing time, not a tick-box in the customs declaration.
One page that fits the board pack
The CBAM decision file has a centrepiece for you: the management summary. Exposure, cost range, the three biggest risks, a clear recommendation. Your specialists read the rest of the file.
- Is CBAM relevant for us, and at what scale?
- What cost impact should we expect for 2026 and 2027?
- Which deadlines are running, and what happens if we miss them?
- Who has to own this internally, and is that enough?
What inaction costs
CBAM does not go away if you look away. It materialises as certificate cost, as queries from the authority, in the worst case as an import barrier when declarant status is missing.
The most expensive version is almost always the one where nobody was responsible. A decision file costs €4,950. A missed deadline, or blanket conservative default values, quickly cost a multiple of that.
Get clarity on a single page.
We give you the basis for a decision, not the technical detail. Talk to us for 30 minutes or commission the file directly.