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EU Combined Nomenclature CN2026

HS code 8533: Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers)

Heading 8533 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

8533Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors

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… > 8533

Explanatory note (Eurostat)

Electrical resistors, incl. rheostats and potentiometers (excl. heating resistors); parts thereof

Subheadings (6 digits)
7
CN codes (8 digits)
8

Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8533

  • 8533 10Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types (excl. heating resistors)

    • 8533 10 00 Fixed carbon resistors, composition or film types
  • 8533 21Other fixed resistors | For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical resistors for a power handling capacity <= 20 W (excl. heating resistors)

    • 8533 21 00 For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W
  • 8533 29Other fixed resistors | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fixed electrical resistors for a power handling capacity > 20 W (excl. heating resistors)

    • 8533 29 00 Other
  • 8533 31Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers | For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Wirewound variable electrical resistors, incl. rheostats and potentiometers, for a power handling capacity <= 20 W (excl. heating resistors)

    • 8533 31 00 For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W
  • 8533 39Wirewound variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Wirewound variable electrical resistors, incl. rheostats and potentiometers, for a power handling capacity > 20 W (excl. heating resistors)

    • 8533 39 00 Other
  • 8533 40Other variable resistors, including rheostats and potentiometers

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electrical variable resistors, incl. rheostats and potentiometers (excl. wirewound variable resistors and heating resistors)

    • 8533 40 10 For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W
    • 8533 40 90 Other
  • 8533 90Parts

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of electrical resistors, incl. rheostats and potentiometers, n.e.s.

    • 8533 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.