HS code 8483: Transmission shafts
Heading 8483 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
8483Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints)
Place in the nomenclature: 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof > 8483
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Transmission shafts, incl. camshafts and crankshafts, and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings for machines; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws, gear boxes and other speed changers, incl. torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, incl. pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings, incl. universal joints; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 24
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8483
- 8483 10Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Transmission shafts, incl. cam shafts and crank shafts, and cranks
- 8483 10 21 Cranks and crank shafts | Of cast iron or cast steel
- 8483 10 25 Cranks and crank shafts | Of open-die forged steel
- 8483 10 29 Cranks and crank shafts | Other
- 8483 10 50 Articulated shafts
- 8483 10 95 Other
- 8483 20Bearing housings, incorporating ball or roller bearings
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bearing housings, incorporating ball or roller bearings, for machinery
- 8483 20 00 Bearing housings, incorporating ball or roller bearings
- 8483 30Bearing housings, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain shaft bearings
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bearing housings for machinery, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain shaft bearings for machinery
- 8483 30 32 Bearing housings | For ball or roller bearings
- 8483 30 38 Bearing housings | Other
- 8483 30 80 Plain shaft bearings
- 8483 40Gears and gearing, other than toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Gears and gearing for machinery (excl. toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately); ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, incl. torque converters
- 8483 40 21 Gears and gearing (other than friction gears) | Spur and helical
- 8483 40 23 Gears and gearing (other than friction gears) | Bevel and bevel/spur
- 8483 40 25 Gears and gearing (other than friction gears) | Worm gear
- 8483 40 29 Gears and gearing (other than friction gears) | Other
- 8483 40 30 Ball or roller screws
- 8483 40 51 Gear boxes and other speed changers | Gear boxes
- 8483 40 59 Gear boxes and other speed changers | Other
- 8483 40 90 Other
- 8483 50Flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flywheels and pulleys, incl. pulley blocks
- 8483 50 20 Of cast iron or cast steel
- 8483 50 80 Other
- 8483 60Clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Clutches and shaft couplings, incl. universal joints, for machinery
- 8483 60 20 Of cast iron or cast steel
- 8483 60 80 Other
- 8483 90Toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts of transmission shafts, ball screws, couplings and other articles of heading 8483, n.e.s.
- 8483 90 20 Parts of bearing housings
- 8483 90 81 Other | Of cast iron or cast steel
- 8483 90 89 Other | 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.