HS code 2805: I. CHEMICAL ELEMENTS | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals
Heading 2805 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 28, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
2805I. CHEMICAL ELEMENTS | Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury
Place in the nomenclature: 28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes > 2805
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed; mercury
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 5
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 13
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 2805
- 2805 11Alkali or alkaline-earth metals | Sodium
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sodium
- 2805 11 00 Sodium
- 2805 12Alkali or alkaline-earth metals | Calcium
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Calcium
- 2805 12 00 Calcium
- 2805 19Alkali or alkaline-earth metals | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Alkali or alkaline-earth metals (excl. sodium and calcium)
- 2805 19 10 Strontium and barium
- 2805 19 90 Other
- 2805 30Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed
- 2805 30 10 Intermixtures or interalloys
- 2805 30 21 Other | Of a purity by weight of 95 % or more | Cerium and lanthanum
- 2805 30 29 Other | Of a purity by weight of 95 % or more | Praseodymium, neodymium and samarium
- 2805 30 31 Other | Of a purity by weight of 95 % or more | Gadolinium, terbium and dysprosium
- 2805 30 39 Other | Of a purity by weight of 95 % or more | Europium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and yttrium
- 2805 30 40 Other | Of a purity by weight of 95 % or more | Scandium
- 2805 30 80 Other | Other
- 2805 40Mercury
- 2805 40 10 In flasks of a net content of 34,5 kg (standard weight), of a fob value, per flask, not exceeding € 224
- 2805 40 90 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.