HS code 8468: Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing
Heading 8468 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
8468Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8468
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting (other than those of heading 8515); gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 4
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 4
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8468
- 8468 10Hand-held blow pipes
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Hand-held blow pipes, gas-operated, for soldering, brazing or welding
- 8468 10 00 Hand-held blow pipes
- 8468 20Other gas-operated machinery and apparatus
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Gas-operated machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding or surface tempering (excl. hand-held blow pipes)
- 8468 20 00 Other gas-operated machinery and apparatus
- 8468 80Other machinery and apparatus
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machinery and apparatus for welding, not gas-operated (excl. electric machines and apparatus of heading 8515)
- 8468 80 00 Other machinery and apparatus
- 8468 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding or surface tempering, non-electric, n.e.s.
- 8468 90 00 Parts
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.