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EU Combined Nomenclature CN2026

HS code 8516: Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters

Heading 8516 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

8516Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hairdryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545

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… > 8516

Explanatory note (Eurostat)

Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electro-thermic hairdressing apparatus, e.g. hairdryers, hair curlers and curling tong heaters, and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors (other than those of heading 8545); parts thereof

Subheadings (6 digits)
14
CN codes (8 digits)
24

Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8516

  • 8516 10Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters
    • 8516 10 11 Instantaneous water heaters
    • 8516 10 80 Other
  • 8516 21Electric space-heating apparatus and electric soil-heating apparatus | Storage heating radiators

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric storage heating radiators, for space-heating

    • 8516 21 00 Storage heating radiators
  • 8516 29Electric space-heating apparatus and electric soil-heating apparatus | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric space-heating and soil-heating apparatus (excl. storage heating radiators)

    • 8516 29 10 Liquid-filled radiators
    • 8516 29 50 Convection heaters
    • 8516 29 91 Other | With built-in fan
    • 8516 29 99 Other | Other
  • 8516 31Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus | Hairdryers

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric hairdryers

    • 8516 31 00 Hairdryers
  • 8516 32Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus | Other hairdressing apparatus

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electro-thermic hairdressing apparatus (excl. hairdryers)

    • 8516 32 00 Other hairdressing apparatus
  • 8516 33Electrothermic hairdressing or hand-drying apparatus | Hand-drying apparatus

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric hand-drying apparatus

    • 8516 33 00 Hand-drying apparatus
  • 8516 40Electric smoothing irons
    • 8516 40 00 Electric smoothing irons
  • 8516 50Microwave ovens
    • 8516 50 00 Microwave ovens
  • 8516 60Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings; grillers and roasters

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric ovens, cookers, cooking plates and boiling rings, electric grillers and roasters, for domestic use (excl. space-heating stoves and microwave ovens)

    • 8516 60 10 Cookers (incorporating at least an oven and a hob)
    • 8516 60 50 Cooking plates, boiling rings and hobs
    • 8516 60 70 Grillers and roasters
    • 8516 60 80 Ovens for building in
    • 8516 60 90 Other
  • 8516 71Other electrothermic appliances | Coffee or tea makers

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electro-thermic coffee or tea makers, for domestic use

    • 8516 71 00 Coffee or tea makers
  • 8516 72Other electrothermic appliances | Toasters

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric toasters, for domestic use

    • 8516 72 00 Toasters
  • 8516 79Other electrothermic appliances | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electro-thermic appliances, for domestic use (excl. hairdressing appliances and hand dryers, space-heating and soil-heating apparatus, water heaters, immersion heaters, smoothing irons, microwave ovens, ovens, cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers, roasters, coffee makers, tea makers and toasters)

    • 8516 79 20 Deep fat fryers
    • 8516 79 70 Other
  • 8516 80Electric heating resistors

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electric heating resistors (excl. those of agglomerated coal and graphite)

    • 8516 80 20 Assembled with an insulated former
    • 8516 80 80 Other
  • 8516 90Parts

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of electric water heaters, immersion heaters, space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus, hairdressing apparatus and hand dryers, electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes and electric heating resistors, n.e.s.

    • 8516 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.