By country
For any good, what the regulation's default values put on a tonne, before the deductions, depending only on where it was made, and which of those values are really the catch-all table wearing a country's name.
So what. For steel the spread is not mainly about the national grid. It is
about the production route. The Route column is the annex's own indicator:
E is scrap into an electric arc furnace, C and F are ore through a blast
furnace. Sorting by cost sorts by route almost perfectly, and the countries at
the clean end are not the ones with clean grids. A procurement team screening
suppliers on country-level carbon data alone will pick the wrong lanes.
Who acts: procurement and whoever builds the supplier-screening model. Cost of getting it wrong: ranking a scrap-route supplier and a blast-furnace one as equivalent because they share a country.
Read the value basis before the route
Where the annex prints "-" for a listed country, the regulation sends that whole
line to the "other countries and territories" table: tonnage, certificates, cost
and the production route together. Those rows say Annex fallback, and the
route letter on them belongs to the catch-all, not to the country. 221 of the
11,037 rows this dropdown can reach fall back, and 36 of them display a route the
country never earned. The catch-all row itself is in the table too, one per good,
labelled Annex fallback (catch-all row).
Pick Cement · 2523 90 00 90 — Other hydraulic cements to see the shape of it: 24 of that good's 100 sourcing countries carry one identical tonnage between them, against 39 distinct values across the other 76. They are still the values an importer without supplier data must use; they are not evidence about how that country makes the good.
For 255 of the 260 goods, the fallback value is worse than the median listed country; at the median it is 1.61 times that country's value. That is the mechanism working as designed, since the defaults exist to make collecting real supplier data pay for itself.