HS code 8443: Printing machinery used for printing by means
Heading 8443 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
8443Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8443
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 (excl. hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines and other office printing machines of heading 8469 to 8472); other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 13
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 23
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8443
- 8443 11Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Offset printing machinery, reel fed
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Offset printing machinery, reel fed
- 8443 11 00 Offset printing machinery, reel fed
- 8443 12Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Offset printing machinery, sheet fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Offset printing machinery, sheet fed [office type], using sheets of a side <= 22 x 36 cm in the unfolded state
- 8443 12 00 Offset printing machinery, sheet fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state)
- 8443 13Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Other offset printing machinery
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Offset printing machinery (excl. sheet fed offset printing machinery, sheet size <= 22 x 36 cm, and reel fed offset printing machinery)
- 8443 13 10 Sheet fed | Used
- 8443 13 32 Sheet fed | New, taking sheets of a size | Not exceeding 53 × 75 cm
- 8443 13 34 Sheet fed | New, taking sheets of a size | Exceeding 53 × 75 cm but not exceeding 75 × 107 cm
- 8443 13 38 Sheet fed | New, taking sheets of a size | Exceeding 75 × 107 cm
- 8443 13 90 Other
- 8443 14Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed (excl. flexographic printing machinery)
- 8443 14 00 Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
- 8443 15Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Letterpress printing machinery (excl. flexographic printing and reel fed machinery)
- 8443 15 00 Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
- 8443 16Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Flexographic printing machinery
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flexographic printing machinery
- 8443 16 00 Flexographic printing machinery
- 8443 17Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Gravure printing machinery
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Gravure printing machinery
- 8443 17 00 Gravure printing machinery
- 8443 19Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442 (excl. hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines and other office printing machines of heading 8469 to 8472, ink jet printing machines and offset, flexographic, letterpress and gravure printing machinery)
- 8443 19 20 For printing textile materials
- 8443 19 40 For use in the production of semiconductors
- 8443 19 70 Other
- 8443 31Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined | Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data-processing machine or to a network
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data-processing machine or to a network
- 8443 31 00 Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data-processing machine or to a network
- 8443 32Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined | Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data-processing machine or to a network
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines which only perform one of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network
- 8443 32 10 Printers
- 8443 32 80 Other
- 8443 39Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined (excl. those capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network and printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442)
- 8443 39 00 Other
- 8443 91Parts and accessories | Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442
- 8443 91 10 Of apparatus of subheading 84431940
- 8443 91 91 Other | Of cast iron or cast steel
- 8443 91 99 Other | Other
- 8443 99Parts and accessories | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts and accessories of printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, n.e.s. (excl. of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442)
- 8443 99 10 Electronic assemblies
- 8443 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.