HS code 2918: VII. CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND THEIR ANHYDRIDES, HALIDES
Heading 2918 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 29, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
2918VII. CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND THEIR ANHYDRIDES, HALIDES, PEROXIDES AND PEROXYACIDS AND THEIR HALOGENATED, SULPHONATED, NITRATED OR NITROSATED DERIVATIVES | Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Place in the nomenclature: 29 Organic chemicals > 2918
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 16
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 19
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 2918
- 2918 11Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Lactic acid, its salts and esters
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Lactic acid, its salts and esters (excl. inorganic or organic compounds of mercury)
- 2918 11 00 Lactic acid, its salts and esters
- 2918 12Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Tartaric acid
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Tartaric acid
- 2918 12 00 Tartaric acid
- 2918 13Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Salts and esters of tartaric acid
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Salts and esters of tartaric acid
- 2918 13 00 Salts and esters of tartaric acid
- 2918 14Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Citric acid
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Citric acid
- 2918 14 00 Citric acid
- 2918 15Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Salts and esters of citric acid
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Salts and esters of citric acid (excl. inorganic or organic compounds of mercury)
- 2918 15 00 Salts and esters of citric acid
- 2918 16Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Gluconic acid, its salts and esters
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Gluconic acid, its salts and esters
- 2918 16 00 Gluconic acid, its salts and esters
- 2918 17Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | 2,2-Diphenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid (benzilic acid)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): 2,2-Diphenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid "benzilic acid"
- 2918 17 00 2,2-Diphenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid (benzilic acid)
- 2918 18Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Chlorobenzilate (ISO)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chlorobenzilate "ISO"
- 2918 18 00 Chlorobenzilate (ISO)
- 2918 19Carboxylic acids with alcohol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (excl. lactic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, gluconic acid and their salts and esters, and chlorobenzilate [ISO])
- 2918 19 30 Cholic acid, 3-α,12-α-dihydroxy-5-β-cholan-24-oic acid (deoxycholic acid), their salts and esters
- 2918 19 40 2,2-Bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid
- 2918 19 98 Other
- 2918 21Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Salicylic acid and its salts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Salicylic acid and its salts (excl. inorganic or organic compounds of mercury)
- 2918 21 00 Salicylic acid and its salts
- 2918 22Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | o-Acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters
Explanatory note (Eurostat): o-Acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters
- 2918 22 00 o-Acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters
- 2918 23Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Other esters of salicylic acid and their salts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Esters of salicylic acid and their salts (excl. o-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters)
- 2918 23 00 Other esters of salicylic acid and their salts
- 2918 29Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (excl. salicylic acid and o-Acetylsalicylic acid, and their salts and esters)
- 2918 29 00 Other
- 2918 30Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 2918 30 00 Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their derivatives
- 2918 91Other | 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts and esters
Explanatory note (Eurostat): 2,4,5-T "ISO" "2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid", its salts and esters
- 2918 91 00 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts and esters
- 2918 99Other | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (excl. only with alcohol, phenol, aldehyde or ketone function, and 2,4,5-T [ISO] [2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid] and its salts and esters)
- 2918 99 40 2,6-Dimethoxybenzoic acid; dicamba (ISO); sodium phenoxyacetate
- 2918 99 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.