HS code 3003: Medicaments
Heading 3003 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 30, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
3003Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale
Place in the nomenclature: 30 Pharmaceutical products > 3003
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 10
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 10
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 3003
- 3003 10Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing penicillins or derivatives thereof with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or derivatives thereof, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 10 00 Containing penicillins or derivatives thereof, with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or their derivatives
- 3003 20Other, containing antibiotics
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. medicaments containing penicillins or derivatives thereof with a penicillanic acid structure, or streptomycins or derivatives thereof)
- 3003 20 00 Other, containing antibiotics
- 3003 31Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 2937 | Containing insulin
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing insulin, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 31 00 Containing insulin
- 3003 39Other, containing hormones or other products of heading 2937 | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing hormones or steroids used as hormones, not containing antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. those containing insulin)
- 3003 39 00 Other
- 3003 41Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof | Containing ephedrine or its salts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing ephedrine or its salts, not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 41 00 Containing ephedrine or its salts
- 3003 42Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof | Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing pseudoephedrine "INN" or its salts, not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 42 00 Containing pseudoephedrine (INN) or its salts
- 3003 43Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof | Containing norephedrine or its salts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing norephedrine or its salts, not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 43 00 Containing norephedrine or its salts
- 3003 49Other, containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof, not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine "INN", norephedrine or their salts)
- 3003 49 00 Other
- 3003 60Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments containing any of the following antimalarial active principles: artemisinin "INN" for oral ingestion combined with other pharmaceutical active ingredients, or amodiaquine "INN"; artelinic acid or its salts; artenimol "INN"; artemotil "INN"; artemether "INN"; artesunate "INN"; chloroquine "INN"; dihydroartemisinin "INN"; lumefantrine "INN"; mefloquine "INN"; piperaquine "INN"; pyrimethamine "INN" or sulfadoxine "INN", not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale
- 3003 60 00 Other, containing antimalarial active principles described in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter
- 3003 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. antibiotics containing hormones or steroids used as hormones, but not containing antibiotics, alkaloids or derivatives thereof, hormones, antibiotics, antimalarial active principles or goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006)
- 3003 90 00 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.