Alloy steel (other than stainless steel and High speed steel), Bars and Rods (including Rounds, Flats, Hexa- gons, Octagons, Wire Rods etc), Angles, Shapes & Sections (including Special Profiles), Plates /Sheets/Strips/ Wide coils/Blooms/Billets/Slabs/Ingots containing 2% or more alloying elements - Standards of Input Output Norms (SION) - C. Engineering Products

C459 Alloy Steel (other than Stainless Steel, Exhaust Valve Steel and High Speed Steel) Semi finished Products (Blooms, Billets and Slabs) and Ingots 1Tonne 1 Major Inputs: (a) Non-alloy Steel Melting Scrap, Pig Iron, Sponge Iron including Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) In Kg. as per Note 2 2 Additives (Ferro Alloys/Metals/Compounds): In Kg. per Kg. content of alloying element in the export product (a) (i) Ferro Silicon (Si : 75%) 1.70 (a)(ii) Ferro Manganese(Mn : 75%) OR 1.43 (a) (i) Ferro Silicon (Si : 75%) 1.46 (a) (ii) Silico- Manganese (Mn : 65% Si : 15%) 1.65 (b) Charge Chrome, High Carbon Ferro Chrome (Cr : 60%) OR 1.79 Low Carbon Ferro Chrome (Cr : 70%) 1.53 (c) Unwrought Nickel (Ni : 99%) OR 1.04 Ferro Nickel, Nickel Oxide Sinter (Ni : 40%) 2.58 (d) Lead (Pb : 99%) Scrap/ Shots/ Wires/Powder in cored wire 1.60 (e) Ferro Molybdenum (Mo : 65%) OR 1.58 Molybdenum Oxide (Mo : 60%) 1.89 (f) Ferro Titanium (Ti : 70%) 2.43 (g) Ferro Tungsten (W: 75%) 1.38 (h) Any other Nobel/ Special Ferro-alloys (Ferro Vanadium, Ferro Boron, Ferro Phosphorous, etc.) 1.38 (i) Any other metal (not present in aforesaid ferro-alloys/metals) in unwrought or wrought form or in powder form in cored wires 1.04 (j) Sulphur stick/Sulphur powder in cored wire 2.00 3 Consumables/Misc. Inputs: In Kgs (a) Graphite Electrodes (For EAF Furnace only) 4 (b) Relevant CI, Steel Rolls for Hot Rolling Mill/Continuous Casting Machine 0.06 (c) Relevant Copper lined Moulds, Copper Moulds for Continuous Casting (if export product is produced through Continuous Casting route with/ without further rolling) 0.01 (d) Casting Powder 1 (e) Aluminium wires, Notched bars, scraps, shots, ingots, Dross, Powder in Cored Wire and Ferro Aluminium 1 (f) CaSi Lumps, CaFe Lumps, Powder of CaFeAl/ CaFe/ CaSi in Cored wire 0.1 (g) Metallurgical Coke (Nut, Pearl, Fines) 20 (h) Raw / Calcined Petroleum coke 4 (i) Rolling Mill Oil, Hydraulic Oil, Lubricating Oil 0.5 (j) Celox Inserts, Temperature Tips, Oxygen Probes, Sampler Probes, Sampler Tips 0.1 (k) Relevant Shear Blades, Saw Blades 0.01 (l) Oxygen Lance pipes, Sub-merged tuyers, Atmospheric injector 0.1 (m) Calcium Carbide 0.5 (n) Low silica lime stone/ Calcined lime 76 (o) Refractories: i) Relevant Shaped Refractories( Fired/Un-fired Bricks/Shapes) 4 ii) Relevant Monolithic Refractories (including Castables, ramming mass, gunning mixes) 10 iii) Relevant Special Refractories i.e. C.C. refractory ( Shrouds, Mono Block Stopper, SE Nozzles), Slide Gate refractory, Porous Plug, Zircon/ Zirconia Nozzles Tundish Nozzles 1 4 Energy Sources: (a) Relevant fuel for electric power for Steel making and Auxiliaries (for units with captive power plant/ source only) 10,00,500 K.Cal (b) Relevant Lubricant for captive power plant 1 kg (c) Relevant fuel for fuel fired re-heating furnace(if only if export product is supplied in rolled condition) 2,61,000 K. Cal (d) Relevant fuel for electric power for hot rolling mill auxiliaries (if only if export product is supplied in rolled condition) 2,17,500 K. Cal (e) Relevant fuel for ladle / tundish/ ferro-alloy heating 35,000 K. Cal Note 1 : This norm is applicable for export product manufactured adopting Electric Arc Furnace/ Electric Induction Furnace using Non-alloy Steel Melting Scrap as the basic input with Sponge Iron/HBI and Pig iron as partial substitutes. Note 2 : The total quantity of items allowed against Sl.No. 1(a) shall be limited to 1115 Kg. minus the quantity of ferro alloys/ metals/ compounds allowed against Sl.No.2. Further, individual quantity of Pig Iron and Sponge Iron/ HBI allowed against Sl. No. 1(a) shall not exceed 20% and 65% respectively of the total quantity of items to be permitted therein in line with Note 1 above. Note 3: Quantities of Ferro Alloys/Metals/Compounds have been worked out based on a specified percentage of alloying element in the Ferro Alloys/Metals/Compounds as indicated therein within the parenthesis against each alloy. If the percentage of alloying element in the ferro-alloy is higher/ lower, the revised (i.e lower / higher) quantity may be worked out on pro-rata basis as under: Quantity permitted in norm x % of element in ferroalloy/metal/compound as per the norm Actual % of element in the imported ferroalloy/metal/compound Note 4 : For a given alloying element in steel, wherever two alternate ferroalloy / metals /compound of the same alloying element have been permitted and it is proposed to import a combination of both, individual quantities of each ferro-alloy may be worked out based on the specified (part) quantities of the alloying element in two forms (but within the overall quantity of alloying element in the steel), using the content based formula given therein. Note 5: Alloying element(s) in steel is/are prescribed by specifying the minimum value or a range or the maximum value. For calculating the quantities of ferro alloys/ metals/ compounds as per the content based formula given in the SION, the prescribed minimum or the mid value of the range or 0.8 times the maximum value of the respective alloying element(s) in the export product shall be taken into consideration. Note 6: In case import of alloy steel melting scrap of known chemical composition is resorted to, quantity of respective ferroalloy/metal/compound to be allowed will reduce to account for the recoverable alloying element (s) (Nickel, Copper, Chromium, Molybdenum and Manganese) in the scrap. The reduced quantity of each ferroalloy/metal shall be obtained by deducting the equivalent quantity of ferroalloy/metal to be obtained using the following formula from the total quantity as per SION read with Note 3: Alloy Steel Scrap Quantity (kg) x % of relevant element in scrap 1.115 x % of relevant element in ferroalloy / metal / compound Ferro alloys/metals/compounds of elements other than that of Nickel, Copper, Chromium Manganese shall be allowed as per the content base formula given therein without any reduction. Note 7: The specified quantities of energy sources/ fuel for electric power generation(in K.Cal) against import item 4(a) 4(c) which correspond to electric power consumption of 500 and 100 KWH per tonne of export product have been allowed assuming that Captive Power Plant (CPP)/Source of matching capacity exist. In case CPP in a given unit is of lower capacity, quantity of fuel to be allowed for import will be reduced on pro rata basis. Note 8: Quantity of energy sources/ fuels (in K.Cal) correspond to a fuel having unit heat value of 8700 K.Cal/Kg. Import of any other fuel of higher/lower unit heat value (as long as it is relevant to the facilities installed in the unit) may be permitted, quantity of which (in Kgs./ Cubic Meters/ K. Liters) may be worked out by dividing the K.Cal figures given in the SION by the actual unit heat value of the imported fuel. Note 9 : Import of items at Sl.No. 3(b), (c), (d), (i), CC Refractories under 3(n) (iii) and 4(c) shall not be permitted against export of steel ingots.