HS code 3810: Pickling preparations for metal surfaces
Heading 3810 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 38, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
3810Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods
Place in the nomenclature: 38 Miscellaneous chemical products > 3810
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding pastes and powders consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as coatings or cores for welding electrodes or rods
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 2
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 3
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 3810
- 3810 10Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; soldering, brazing or welding pastes and powders consisting of metal and other materials
- 3810 10 00 Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials
- 3810 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods (excl. soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials, and welding electrodes or rods of base metals or metal carbides coated with fluxes)
- 3810 90 10 Preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes and rods
- 3810 90 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.