HS code 6903: I. GOODS OF SILICEOUS FOSSIL MEALS
Heading 6903 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 69, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
6903I. GOODS OF SILICEOUS FOSSIL MEALS OR OF SIMILAR SILICEOUS EARTHS, AND REFRACTORY GOODS | Other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods and slide gates), other than those of siliceous fossil meals or of similar siliceous earths
Place in the nomenclature: 69 Ceramic products > 6903
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Retorts, crucibles, mufflers, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods, slide gates and other refractory ceramic goods (excl. those of siliceous fossil meals or of similar siliceous earths, and refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 3
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 5
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 6903
- 6903 10Containing, by weight, more than 50 % of free carbon
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Retorts, crucibles, mufflers, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods, slide gates and other refractory ceramic goods, containing by weight > 50% free carbon (excl. refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods)
- 6903 10 00 Containing, by weight, more than 50 % of free carbon
- 6903 20Containing, by weight, more than 50 % of alumina (Al2O3) or of a mixture or compound of alumina and of silica (SiO2)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Retorts, crucibles, mufflers, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods and other refractory ceramic goods, containing > 50% alumina, or a compound of alumina and silica (excl. refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods)
- 6903 20 10 Containing, by weight, less than 45 % of alumina (Al2O3)
- 6903 20 90 Containing, by weight, 45 % or more of alumina (Al2O3)
- 6903 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Retorts, crucibles, mufflers, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods, slide gates and other refractory ceramic goods (excl. those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths, those of heading 6902, containing > 50% by weight of free carbon or containing > 50% by weight of alumina [Al203] or a mixture or compound of alumina and silica [SiO2])
- 6903 90 10 Containing, by weight, more than 25 % but not more than 50 % of free carbon
- 6903 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.