HS code 8511: Electrical ignition or starting equipment
Heading 8511 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
8511Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines
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… > 8511
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines, e.g. ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs, glow plugs and starter motors; generators, e.g. dynamos and alternators, and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 7
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8511
- 8511 10Sparking plugs
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sparking plugs of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines
- 8511 10 00 Sparking plugs
- 8511 20Ignition magnetos; magneto-dynamos; magnetic flywheels
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos and magnetic flywheels, for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines
- 8511 20 00 Ignition magnetos; magneto-dynamos; magnetic flywheels
- 8511 30Distributors; ignition coils
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Distributors and ignition coils of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines
- 8511 30 00 Distributors; ignition coils
- 8511 40Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines
- 8511 40 00 Starter motors and dual purpose starter-generators
- 8511 50Other generators
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Generators of a kind used for internal combustion engines (excl. magneto dynamos and dual purpose starter-generators)
- 8511 50 00 Other generators
- 8511 80Other equipment
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electrical ignition or starting equipment, incl. cut-outs, of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (excl. generators, starter motors, distributors, ignition coils, ignition magnetos, magnetic flywheels and sparking plugs)
- 8511 80 00 Other equipment
- 8511 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of electrical ignition or starting equipment, generators, etc. of heading 8511, n.e.s.
- 8511 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.