HS code 8532: Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)
Heading 8532 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
8532Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set)
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… > 8532
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable "pre-set"; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 9
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 9
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8532
- 8532 10Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0,5 kvar (power capacitors)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power-handling capacity of >= 0,5 kvar "power capacitors"
- 8532 10 00 Fixed capacitors designed for use in 50/60 Hz circuits and having a reactive power handling capacity of not less than 0,5 kvar (power capacitors)
- 8532 21Other fixed capacitors | Tantalum
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors, tantalum (excl. power capacitors)
- 8532 21 00 Tantalum
- 8532 22Other fixed capacitors | Aluminium electrolytic
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors, aluminium electrolytic (excl. power capacitors)
- 8532 22 00 Aluminium electrolytic
- 8532 23Other fixed capacitors | Ceramic dielectric, single layer
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors, ceramic dielectric, single layer (excl. power capacitors)
- 8532 23 00 Ceramic dielectric, single layer
- 8532 24Other fixed capacitors | Ceramic dielectric, multilayer
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors, ceramic dielectric, multilayer (excl. power capacitors)
- 8532 24 00 Ceramic dielectric, multilayer
- 8532 25Other fixed capacitors | Dielectric of paper or plastics
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors, dielectric of paper or plastics (excl. power capacitors)
- 8532 25 00 Dielectric of paper or plastics
- 8532 29Other fixed capacitors | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical capacitors (excl. tantalum, aluminium electrolytic, ceramic, paper, plastic and power capacitors)
- 8532 29 00 Other
- 8532 30Variable or adjustable (pre-set) capacitors
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Variable or adjustable "pre-set" electrical capacitors
- 8532 30 00 Variable or adjustable (pre-set) capacitors
- 8532 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of electrical "pre-set" capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable, n.e.s.
- 8532 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.