Trade Compliance Records announces a dedicated CBAM Compliance Record type covering all six EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism product categories, with embedded carbon intensity data and Wikidata entity anchors.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trade Compliance Records Launches CBAM Compliance Record for EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Clearwater, Florida — May 22, 2026 Trade Compliance Records (TCR) today announced a dedicated CBAM Compliance Record type covering all six EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) product categories: steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen, and electricity. The record embeds verified carbon intensity data, production facility identifiers, and Wikidata entity anchors into a single SHA-256 hashed compliance document. The CBAM Compliance Gap The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive phase on 1 January 2026. Importers of the six covered product categories must now purchase CBAM certificates corresponding to the carbon price that would have been paid under EU carbon pricing rules. The compliance obligation requires importers to submit quarterly CBAM declarations to the EU CBAM Registry, including verified embedded carbon intensity data for each product batch. The structural problem is that the carbon intensity data must come from the production facility — not from the importer. Most production facilities in China, India, Turkey, and Russia do not have systems to generate EU-compliant carbon intensity reports. The result is a documentation gap at the source that creates CBAM declaration errors at the destination. The TCR CBAM Record Architecture TCR's CBAM Compliance Record creates a pre-verified documentation chain from the production facility to the EU CBAM Registry. The record includes: production facility identity (verified against the EU CBAM Registry's approved facility list), embedded carbon intensity per tonne of product, production batch reference, and the SHA-256 hash of the underlying production data. Each record is linked to its Wikidata entity QID for knowledge graph reconciliation. "CBAM is not a tariff — it is a documentation obligation," said Anthony James Peacock, Founder of Trade Compliance R...