HS code 8471: Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof
Heading 8471 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
8471Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8471
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, n.e.s.
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 8
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 14
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8471
- 8471 30Portable automatic data-processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Data-processing machines, automatic, portable, weighing <= 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display (excl. peripheral units)
- 8471 30 00 Portable automatic data-processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display
- 8471 41Other automatic data-processing machines | Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Data-processing machines, automatic, comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit, and one input unit and one output unit, whether or not combined (excl. portable weighing <= 10 kg and excl. those presented in the form of systems and peripheral units)
- 8471 41 00 Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined
- 8471 49Other automatic data-processing machines | Other, presented in the form of systems
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Data-processing machines, automatic, presented in the form of systems "comprising at least a central processing unit, one input unit and one output unit" (excl. portable weighing <= 10 kg and excl. peripheral units)
- 8471 49 00 Other, presented in the form of systems
- 8471 50Processing units other than those of subheading 847141 or 847149, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Processing units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units (excl. those of heading 8471.41 or 8471.49 and excl. peripheral units)
- 8471 50 00 Processing units other than those of subheading 847141 or 847149, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units
- 8471 60Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Input or output units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing
- 8471 60 60 Keyboards
- 8471 60 70 Other
- 8471 70Storage units
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Storage units for automatic data-processing machines
- 8471 70 20 Central storage units
- 8471 70 30 Other | Disk storage units | Optical, including magneto-optical
- 8471 70 50 Other | Disk storage units | Other | Hard disk drives
- 8471 70 70 Other | Disk storage units | Other | Other
- 8471 70 80 Other | Magnetic tape storage units
- 8471 70 98 Other | Other
- 8471 80Other units of automatic data-processing machines
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Units for automatic data-processing machines (excl. processing units, input or output units and storage units)
- 8471 80 00 Other units of automatic data-processing machines
- 8471 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, n.e.s.
- 8471 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.