HS code 8460: Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing
Heading 8460 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
8460Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products, other than gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8460
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products (excl. gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461 and machines for working in the hand)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 10
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 12
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8460
- 8460 12Flat-surface grinding machines | Numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flat-surface grinding machines for finishing metal, numerically controlled
- 8460 12 00 Numerically controlled
- 8460 19Flat-surface grinding machines | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flat-surface grinding machines for finishing metal, not numerically controlled
- 8460 19 00 Other
- 8460 22Other grinding machines | Centreless grinding machines, numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Centreless grinding machines for finishing metal, numerically controlled (other than gear finishing machines)
- 8460 22 00 Centreless grinding machines, numerically controlled
- 8460 23Other grinding machines | Other cylindrical grinding machines, numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cylindrical grinding machines for finishing metal, numerically controlled (excl. gear finishing machines and centreless machines)
- 8460 23 00 Other cylindrical grinding machines, numerically controlled
- 8460 24Other grinding machines | Other, numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Grinding machines for finishing metal, numerically controlled (excl. flat-surface, cylindrical and gear grinding machines)
- 8460 24 00 Other, numerically controlled
- 8460 29Other grinding machines | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Grinding machines for finishing metal, not numerically controlled (excl. flat-surface and gear grinding machines)
- 8460 29 10 For cylindrical surfaces
- 8460 29 90 Other
- 8460 31Sharpening (tool or cutter grinding) machines | Numerically controlled
- 8460 31 00 Numerically controlled
- 8460 39Sharpening (tool or cutter grinding) machines | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sharpening "tool or cutter grinding" machines, not numerically controlled
- 8460 39 00 Other
- 8460 40Honing or lapping machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Honing or lapping machines, for working metals, metal carbides or cermets (excl. gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines)
- 8460 40 10 Numerically controlled
- 8460 40 90 Other
- 8460 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for deburring, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets (excl. grinding, sharpening, honing and lapping machines and machines for working in the hand)
- 8460 90 00 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.