HS code 8461: Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching
Heading 8461 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
8461Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine tools working by removing metal or cermets, not elsewhere specified or included
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8461
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine tools working by removing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s.
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 5
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 14
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8461
- 8461 20Shaping or slotting machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Shaping or slotting machines, for working metals, metal carbides or cermets
- 8461 20 00 Shaping or slotting machines
- 8461 30Broaching machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Broaching machines, for working metals, metal carbides or cermets
- 8461 30 10 Numerically controlled
- 8461 30 90 Other
- 8461 40Gear-cutting, gear-grinding or gear-finishing machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines, for working metals, metal carbides or cermets (excl. planing, slotting and broaching machines)
- 8461 40 11 Gear-cutting machines (including abrasive gear-cutting machines) | For cutting cylindrical gears | Numerically controlled
- 8461 40 19 Gear-cutting machines (including abrasive gear-cutting machines) | For cutting cylindrical gears | Other
- 8461 40 31 Gear-cutting machines (including abrasive gear-cutting machines) | For cutting other gears | Numerically controlled
- 8461 40 39 Gear-cutting machines (including abrasive gear-cutting machines) | For cutting other gears | Other
- 8461 40 71 Gear-finishing machines | Fitted with a micrometric adjusting system, in which the positioning in any one axis can be set up to an accuracy of at least 0,01 mm | Numerically controlled
- 8461 40 79 Gear-finishing machines | Fitted with a micrometric adjusting system, in which the positioning in any one axis can be set up to an accuracy of at least 0,01 mm | Other
- 8461 40 90 Gear-finishing machines | Other
- 8461 50Sawing or cutting-off machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sawing or cutting-off machines, for working metals, metal carbides or cermets (excl. machines for working in the hand)
- 8461 50 11 Sawing machines | Circular saws
- 8461 50 19 Sawing machines | Other
- 8461 50 90 Cutting-off machines
- 8461 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Planing machines and other machine tools for working metals, metal carbides or cermets by removing material, n.e.s.
- 8461 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.