HS code 8523: Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart

Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8523

• 8523 21Magnetic media | Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe for the recording of sound or of other phenomena

  • 8523 21 00 Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe
• 8523 29Magnetic media | Other

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Magnetic media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena (excl. cards incorporating a magnetic stripe and goods of chapter 37)

  • 8523 29 15 Magnetic tapes; magnetic discs | Unrecorded
  • 8523 29 19 Magnetic tapes; magnetic discs | Other
  • 8523 29 90 Other
• 8523 41Optical media | Unrecorded

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Optical media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, unrecorded (excl. goods of chapter 37)

  • 8523 41 10 Discs for laser reading systems of a recording capacity not exceeding 900 megabytes, other than erasable
  • 8523 41 30 Discs for laser reading systems of a recording capacity exceeding 900 megabytes but not exceeding 18 gigabytes, other than erasable
  • 8523 41 90 Other
• 8523 49Optical media | Other

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Optical media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena (excl. unrecorded and goods of chapter 37)

  • 8523 49 10 Discs for laser reading systems | Digital versatile discs (DVD)
  • 8523 49 20 Discs for laser reading systems | Other
  • 8523 49 90 Other
• 8523 51Semiconductor media | Solid-state non-volatile storage devices

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Solid-state, non-volatile data storage devices for recording data from an external source [flash memory cards or flash electronic storage cards] (excl. goods of chapter 37)

  • 8523 51 10 Unrecorded
  • 8523 51 90 Other
• 8523 52Semiconductor media | Smart cards

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cards incorporating one or more electronic integrated circuits "smart cards"

  • 8523 52 00 Smart cards
• 8523 59Semiconductor media | Other

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Semiconductor media, unrecorded, for the recording of sound or of other phenomena (excl. solid-state non-volatile data storage devices, smart cards and goods of chapter 37)

  • 8523 59 10 Unrecorded
  • 8523 59 90 Other
• 8523 80Other

  Explanatory note (Eurostat): Media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, incl. matrices and masters for the production of discs (excl. magnetic, optical and semiconductor media, and products of chapter 37)

  • 8523 80 10 Unrecorded
  • 8523 80 90 Other

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