HS code 8518: Microphones and stands therefor
Heading 8518 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
8518Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets
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… > 8518
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Microphones and stands therefor (excl. cordless microphones with built-in transmitter); loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers (excl. telephone sets, hearing aids and helmets with built-in headphones, whether or not incorporating a microphone); audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 8
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 8
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8518
- 8518 10Microphones and stands therefor
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Microphones and stands therefor (excl. cordless microphones with built-in transmitter)
- 8518 10 00 Microphones and stands therefor
- 8518 21Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures | Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures
- 8518 21 00 Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures
- 8518 22Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures | Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure
- 8518 22 00 Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure
- 8518 29Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Loudspeakers, without enclosure
- 8518 29 00 Other
- 8518 30Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers (excl. telephone sets, hearing aids and helmets with built-in headphones, whether or not incorporating a microphone)
- 8518 30 00 Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers
- 8518 40Audio-frequency electric amplifiers
- 8518 40 00 Audio-frequency electric amplifiers
- 8518 50Electric sound amplifier sets
- 8518 50 00 Electric sound amplifier sets
- 8518 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of microphones, loudspeakers, headphones and earphones, earphones, audio-frequency electric amplifiers or electric sound amplifier sets, n.e.s.
- 8518 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.