The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) has "successfully" been in force since 1 January, with a combined 1.66mn t of CBAM goods imports declared in the first reporting window on 1-6 January, the European Commission said on 14 January.
About 98pc of the volumes were from the iron and steel sectors, 1.2pc from fertilizers, 0.5pc from cement and 0.3pc from aluminium. There were no volumes reported from the power and hydrogen sectors. The top non-EU countries from where such goods were delivered were Turkey, China, India, Canada, Taiwan and Vietnam, the commission said. Belgium, Spain, Romania, the Netherlands, France and Germany were the top importing countries of CBAM goods within the EU on 1-6 January.
The "seamless" integration of systems at national and EU level ensured real-time data exchange, efficient validation of declarants and uninterrupted import procedures at EU external borders, the commission said.
"National authorities report stable processing times" for CBAM goods at customs, it added.
More than 12,000 economic operators submitted an application for CBAM authorisation on 1-7 January and just under 10,500 import customs declarations with CBAM goods were validated automatically and in real time through integrated customs systems during the period, the commission said. It added that over 4,100 CBAM economic operators successfully obtained the authorised declarant status in the EU prior to and immediately after 1 January.
The commission urged all economic operators subject to the CBAM to submit their CBAM authorisation application via the CBAM registry "now", stressing that early submission would ensure uninterrupted compliance, access to automated validation and full integration with customs clearance processes.
