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Wire rod (CN 7213) is hot-rolled bar in irregularly wound coils, the starting point for a lot of downstream steel. Drawn wire (CN 7217) is wire rod pulled through dies to reach smaller diameters. Both are in CBAM scope — only direct emissions count. If you import these as finished products, you need the billet precursor and the rolling / drawing fuel. If you import downstream fasteners, mesh, nails or springs made from them, these codes become the precursor you ask about.
Wire rod (CN 7213)
- Hot-rolled from billet (CN 7207).
- Energy dominated by billet reheat furnaces (natural gas or coke oven gas).
- Produced primarily in integrated steel mills with EAF or BF-BOF route.
Drawn wire (CN 7217)
- Cold-drawn from wire rod. Mechanical process; electrical energy for drawing (not counted for CBAM steel direct scope).
- May include pickling (acid cleaning before drawing) and coating (zinc, copper, polymer) — the coating-plant energy counts.
What to ask your supplier
- Fuel bills for the mill operations.
- Billet procurement — origin and emissions.
- Production tonnes by CN code and grade.
- Coating/plating energy if present.
Where this precursor flows to
- Fasteners (CN 7318).
- Welded wire mesh.
- Nails and wire ropes.
- Springs and reinforcement.
Each of those is a separate CN heading with its own CBAM reporting line, but the wire rod / wire embedded emissions flow through as a precursor.