These findings are based mostly on information from the previous three years (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24).
CBAM is the EU’s proposed tax on energy-intensive merchandise, comparable to iron, metal, cement, fertilizers, and aluminum, imported from nations like India and China. The tax is predicated on the carbon emissions generated in the course of the manufacturing of those items. The EU argues that this mechanism creates a stage taking part in area for domestically manufactured items, which should adhere to stricter environmental requirements, and helps scale back emissions from imports. However different nations, notably creating nations, are anxious this could hurt their economies and make it too costly to commerce with the bloc.
The transfer has additionally sparked debate at multilateral boards, together with UN local weather conferences, with creating nations arguing that, beneath UN local weather change guidelines, nations can not dictate how others ought to scale back emissions.
Avantika Goswami, who leads CSE’s local weather change programme, mentioned that India’s CBAM-covered items exports to the EU accounted for 9.91 per cent of its complete items exports to the bloc in 2022-23. She mentioned 26 per cent of India’s aluminum and 28 per cent of its iron and metal exports had been destined for the EU in 2022-23. These sectors dominate the basket of CBAM-covered items shipped from India to the EU. In 2022-23, the exports of CBAM-covered items to the EU made up about one-fourth (25.7 p.c) of India’s complete such items exported globally, which is important for the industries working in these sectors.
At the moment, hydrogen and electrical energy should not exported from India to the EU.
Of India’s complete items exported worldwide, CBAM-covered items exports to the EU represent solely about 1.64 p.c.
