HS code 7204: I. PRIMARY MATERIALS
Heading 7204 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 72, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
7204I. PRIMARY MATERIALS; PRODUCTS IN GRANULAR OR POWDER FORM | Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel
Place in the nomenclature: 72 Iron and steel > 7204
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel (excl. slag, scale and other waste from the production of iron or steel; radioactive waste and scrap; fragments of pigs, blocks or other primary forms of pig iron or spiegeleisen)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 12
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 7204
- 7204 10Waste and scrap of cast iron
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Waste and scrap, of cast iron (excl. radioactive)
- 7204 10 00 Waste and scrap of cast iron
- 7204 21Waste and scrap of alloy steel | Of stainless steel
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Waste and scrap of stainless steel (excl. radioactive, and waste and scrap of batteries and electric accumulators)
- 7204 21 10 Containing by weight 8 % or more of nickel
- 7204 21 90 Other
- 7204 29Waste and scrap of alloy steel | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Waste and scrap of alloy steel (excl. stainless steel, and waste and scrap, radioactive, or waste and scrap from batteries and electric accumulators)
- 7204 29 00 Other
- 7204 30Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel (excl. radioactive, and waste and scrap of batteries and electric accumulators)
- 7204 30 00 Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel
- 7204 41Other waste and scrap | Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust, filings, trimmings and stampings, whether or not in bundles
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust, filings, trimmings and stampings of iron or steel, whether or not in bundles (excl. those of cast iron, alloy steel or tinned iron or steel)
- 7204 41 10 Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust and filings
- 7204 41 91 Trimmings and stampings | In bundles
- 7204 41 99 Trimmings and stampings | Other
- 7204 49Other waste and scrap | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Waste and scrap of iron or steel (excl. slag, scale and other waste of the production of iron and steel; radioactive waste and scrap; fragments of pigs, blocks or other primary forms of pig iron or spiegeleisen; waste and scrap of cast iron, alloy steel or tinned iron or steel; turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust, filings, trimmings and stampings; waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators)
- 7204 49 10 Fragmentised (shredded)
- 7204 49 30 Other | In bundles
- 7204 49 90 Other | Other
- 7204 50Remelting scrap ingots
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel (excl. products whose chemical composition conforms to the definitions of pig iron, spiegeleisen, or ferro-alloys)
- 7204 50 00 Remelting scrap ingots
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.