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Importing into the EU now means carbon accounting, with a bill at the end of it. The UK starts its own version in January 2027. Some of the rules are final, some are still drafts, and the guidance keeps shifting underneath both.

Every article here links the regulation it rests on, says whether that rule is in force or still a proposal, and carries the date it was checked. You can follow the source and judge it yourself.

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UK CBAM Rates and Carbon Price Relief
updated · 2026-08-30

Numbers come with dates

Certificate prices change every quarter, and the rules are still moving. You will always see which quarter or which version a figure belongs to, so you can tell whether it still holds.

We say when a rule is only a draft

A lot of CBAM guidance is still at the proposal stage. Where that is the case, the article says so in the sentence that makes the claim, not in small print at the bottom.

You can check everything

Each article links the regulation, factsheet or study it is based on, and says what kind of source that is: law that is in force, official guidance, or research that only hints at direction.

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