HS code 8505: Electromagnets
Heading 8505 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 85, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
8505Electromagnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electromagnetic lifting heads
Place in the nomenclature: 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and… > 8505
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Electromagnets (excl. magnets for medical use); permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electromagnetic lifting heads; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 4
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 9
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8505
- 8505 11Permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation | Of metal
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Permanent magnets of metal and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization (excl. chucks, clamps and similar holding devices)
- 8505 11 10 Containing neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium or samarium
- 8505 11 90 Other
- 8505 19Permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetization, of materials other than metal
- 8505 19 10 Permanent magnets of agglomerated ferrite
- 8505 19 90 Other
- 8505 20Electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes
- 8505 20 00 Electromagnetic couplings, clutches and brakes
- 8505 90Other, including parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electromagnets and electromagnetic lifting heads, and their parts (excl. magnets for medical use); electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices and their parts, n.e.s.
- 8505 90 21 Electromagnets; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices | Electromagnets of a kind used solely or principally for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus other than electromagnets of heading 9018
- 8505 90 29 Electromagnets; electromagnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices | Other
- 8505 90 50 Electromagnetic lifting heads
- 8505 90 90 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.