HS code 8421: Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers
Heading 8421 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 84, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
8421Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8421
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers (excl. those for isotope separation); filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases; parts thereof (excl. artificial kidneys)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 12
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 18
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8421
- 8421 11Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers | Cream separators
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Centrifugal cream separators
- 8421 11 00 Cream separators
- 8421 12Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers | Clothes dryers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Centrifugal clothes-dryers
- 8421 12 00 Clothes dryers
- 8421 19Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers (excl. isotope separators, cream separators and clothes dryers)
- 8421 19 20 Centrifuges of a kind used in laboratories
- 8421 19 70 Other
- 8421 21Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids | For filtering or purifying water
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water
- 8421 21 00 For filtering or purifying water
- 8421 22Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids | For filtering or purifying beverages other than water
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying beverages (excl.water)
- 8421 22 00 For filtering or purifying beverages other than water
- 8421 23Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids | Oil or petrol filters for internal combustion engines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines
- 8421 23 00 Oil or petrol filters for internal combustion engines
- 8421 29Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids (excl. such machinery and apparatus for water and other beverages, oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines and artificial kidneys)
- 8421 29 20 Made of fluoropolymers and with filter or purifier membrane thickness not exceeding 140 microns
- 8421 29 80 Other
- 8421 31Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases | Intake air filters for internal combustion engines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Intake air filters for internal combustion engines
- 8421 31 00 Intake air filters for internal combustion engines
- 8421 32Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases | Catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines
- 8421 32 00 Catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines
- 8421 39Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying gases (excl. isotope separators and intake air filters for internal combustion engines, and catalytic converters and particulate filters for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines)
- 8421 39 15 With stainless steel housing, and with inlet and outlet tube bores with inside diameters not exceeding 1,3 cm
- 8421 39 25 Other | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying air
- 8421 39 35 Other | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying other gases | By a catalytic process
- 8421 39 85 Other | Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying other gases | Other
- 8421 91Parts | Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers, n.e.s.
- 8421 91 00 Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers
- 8421 99Parts | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s.
- 8421 99 10 Parts of machinery and apparatus of subheadings 84212920 or 84213915
- 8421 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.