HS code 8462: Machine tools (including presses) for working metal
Heading 8462 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
8462Machine tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excluding draw-benches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8462
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Machine tools, incl. presses, for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excl. rolling mills); machine tools, incl. presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines, for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excl. draw-benches); presses for working metal or metal carbides (excl. machines of headings 8456 to 8461)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 20
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 29
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8462
- 8462 11Hot forming machines for forging, die forging (including presses) and hot hammers | Closed die forging machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Closed die forging machines
- 8462 11 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 11 90 Other
- 8462 19Hot forming machines for forging, die forging (including presses) and hot hammers | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Hot forming machines for forging, die forging incl. presses, and hot hammers (excl. closed die forging machines)
- 8462 19 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 19 90 Other
- 8462 22Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Profile forming machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Profile forming machines, for flat products
- 8462 22 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 22 90 Other
- 8462 23Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Numerically controlled press brakes
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Numerically controlled press brakes
- 8462 23 00 Numerically controlled press brakes
- 8462 24Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Numerically controlled panel benders
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Numerically controlled panel benders
- 8462 24 00 Numerically controlled panel benders
- 8462 25Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Numerically controlled roll forming machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Numerically controlled roll forming machines
- 8462 25 00 Numerically controlled roll forming machines
- 8462 26Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Other numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines for flat products (excl. profile forming machines, press brakes, panel benders and roll forming machines)
- 8462 26 00 Other numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines
- 8462 29Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines (including press brakes) for flat products | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines for flat products (excl. numerically controlled, and profile forming machines)
- 8462 29 00 Other
- 8462 32Slitting lines, cut-to-length lines and other shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, other than combined punching and shearing machines | Slitting lines and cut-to-length lines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Slitting lines and cut-to-length lines, for flat products
- 8462 32 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 32 90 Other
- 8462 33Slitting lines, cut-to-length lines and other shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, other than combined punching and shearing machines | Numerically controlled shearing machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Numerically controlled shearing machines, for flat products (excl. slitting lines, cut-to-length lines, presses, and combined punching and shearing machines)
- 8462 33 00 Numerically controlled shearing machines
- 8462 39Slitting lines, cut-to-length lines and other shearing machines (excluding presses) for flat products, other than combined punching and shearing machines | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Shearing machines, for flat products (excl. slitting lines, cut-to-length lines, presses, combined punching and shearing machines, and numerically controlled)
- 8462 39 00 Other
- 8462 42Punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products including combined punching and shearing machines | Numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Punching, notching or nibbling machines for flat products incl. combined punching and shearing machines, numerically controlled (excl. presses)
- 8462 42 00 Numerically controlled
- 8462 49Punching, notching or nibbling machines (excluding presses) for flat products including combined punching and shearing machines | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Punching, notching or nibbling machines for flat products incl. combined punching and shearing machines (excl. presses, and numerically controlled)
- 8462 49 00 Other
- 8462 51Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses) | Numerically controlled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar, numerically controlled (excl. presses)
- 8462 51 00 Numerically controlled
- 8462 59Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excluding presses) | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for working tube, pipe, hollow section and bar (excl. presses, and numerically controlled)
- 8462 59 00 Other
- 8462 61Cold metal working presses | Hydraulic presses
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Hydraulic cold metal working presses
- 8462 61 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 61 90 Other
- 8462 62Cold metal working presses | Mechanical presses
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Mechanical cold metal working presses
- 8462 62 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 62 90 Other
- 8462 63Cold metal working presses | Servo-presses
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cold metal working servo-presses
- 8462 63 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 63 90 Other
- 8462 69Cold metal working presses | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cold metal working presses (excl. hydraulic, mechanical and servo-presses)
- 8462 69 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 69 90 Other
- 8462 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machine tools, incl. presses, for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excl. rolling mills), and machine tools, incl. presses, for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excl. draw-benches), and presses for working metal or metal carbides (excl. machines of 8456 to 8462.69)
- 8462 90 10 Numerically controlled
- 8462 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.