HS code 8515: Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser
Heading 8515 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
8515Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets
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… > 8515
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Electric, incl. electrically heated gas, laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals, metal carbides or cermets; parts thereof (excl. guns for spraying hot materials of heading 8424)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 8
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 13
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8515
- 8515 11Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus | Soldering irons and guns
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Soldering irons and guns, electric
- 8515 11 00 Soldering irons and guns
- 8515 19Brazing or soldering machines and apparatus | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Brazing or soldering machines (excl. soldering irons and guns)
- 8515 19 10 Wave soldering machines of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of printed circuit assemblies
- 8515 19 90 Other
- 8515 21Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal | Fully or partly automatic
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fully or partly automatic machines for resistance welding of metals
- 8515 21 00 Fully or partly automatic
- 8515 29Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for resistance welding of metals, neither fully nor partly automatic
- 8515 29 00 Other
- 8515 31Machines and apparatus for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals | Fully or partly automatic
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fully or partly automatic machines for arc welding of metals, incl. plasma arc welding
- 8515 31 00 Fully or partly automatic
- 8515 39Machines and apparatus for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for arc welding of metals, incl. plasma arc welding, neither fully nor partly automatic
- 8515 39 13 For manual welding with coated electrodes, complete with welding or cutting devices, and consigned with | Transformers
- 8515 39 18 For manual welding with coated electrodes, complete with welding or cutting devices, and consigned with | Generators or rotary converters or static converters, rectifiers or rectifying apparatus
- 8515 39 90 Other
- 8515 80Other machines and apparatus
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric machines and apparatus for laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc welding; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals, metal carbides or cermets (excl. metal spray guns specified elsewhere)
- 8515 80 10 For treating metals
- 8515 80 90 Other
- 8515 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of machines and apparatus for soldering or welding or for hot spraying of metals, metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s. (excl. wire bonders of a kind used for the manufacture of semiconductor devices)
- 8515 90 20 Of wave soldering machines of subheading 85151910
- 8515 90 80 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.