HS code 8423: Weighing machinery
Heading 8423 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
8423Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including weight-operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8423
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Weighing machinery, incl. weight-operated counting or checking machines (excl. balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better); weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 18
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8423
- 8423 10Personal weighing machines, including baby scales; household scales
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Personal weighing machines, incl. baby scales; household scales
- 8423 10 10 Household scales
- 8423 10 90 Other
- 8423 20Scales for continuous weighing of goods on conveyors
- 8423 20 10 Using electronic means for gauging weight
- 8423 20 90 Other
- 8423 30Constant weight scales and scales for discharging a predetermined weight of material into a bag or container, including hopper scales
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Constant weight scales and scales for discharging a pre-determined weight of material into a bag or container, incl. hopper scales (excl. scales for continuous weighing of goods on conveyors)
- 8423 30 10 Using electronic means for gauging weight
- 8423 30 90 Other
- 8423 81Other weighing machinery | Having a maximum weighing capacity not exceeding 30 kg
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Weighing machinery having a maximum weighing capacity <= 30 kg (excl. balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, personal weighing machines, household scales, scales for continuous weighing of goods on conveyors, constant weight scales and scales for discharging a pre-determined weight of material into a bag or container, incl. hopper scales)
- 8423 81 21 Using electronic means for gauging weight | Check weighers and automatic control machines operating by reference to a pre-determined weight
- 8423 81 23 Using electronic means for gauging weight | Machinery for weighing and labelling pre-packaged goods
- 8423 81 25 Using electronic means for gauging weight | Shop scales
- 8423 81 29 Using electronic means for gauging weight | Other
- 8423 81 80 Other
- 8423 82Other weighing machinery | Having a maximum weighing capacity exceeding 30 kg but not exceeding 5000 kg
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Weighing machinery of a maximum weighing capacity > 30 kg but <= 5.000 kg (excl. personal weighing machines, scales for continuous weighing of goods on conveyors, constant weight scales and scales for discharging a pre-determined weight of material into a bag or container, incl. hopper scales)
- 8423 82 20 Using electronic means for gauging weight, excluding machines for weighing motor vehicles
- 8423 82 81 Other | Check weighers and automatic control machines operating by reference to a pre-determined weight
- 8423 82 89 Other | Other
- 8423 89Other weighing machinery | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Weighing machinery of a maximum weighing capacity > 5.000 kg
- 8423 89 20 Using electronic means for gauging weight
- 8423 89 80 Other
- 8423 90Weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of weighing machinery
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of weighing machinery, n.e.s.
- 8423 90 10 Parts of weighing machinery of subheadings 84232010, 84233010, 84238121, 84238123, 84238125, 84238129, 84238220 or 84238920
- 8423 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.