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EU Combined Nomenclature CN2026

HS code 8540: Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves

Heading 8540 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

8540Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode ray tubes, television camera tubes)

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… > 8540

Explanatory note (Eurostat)

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes, e.g. vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode ray tubes and television camera tubes; parts thereof

Subheadings (6 digits)
11
CN codes (8 digits)
12

Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8540

  • 8540 11Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes | Colour

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cathode ray television picture tubes, incl. video monitor cathode ray tubes, colour

    • 8540 11 00 Colour
  • 8540 12Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes | Monochrome

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cathode ray television picture tubes, incl. video monitor cathode ray tubes, black and white or other monochrome, with a screen width-to-height ratio of < 1,5 and a diagonal measurement of the screen > 72 cm

    • 8540 12 00 Monochrome
  • 8540 20Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photocathode tubes

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo cathode tubes (excl. cathode ray television picture tubes incl. video monitor cathode ray tubes)

    • 8540 20 10 Television camera tubes
    • 8540 20 80 Other
  • 8540 40Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch of < 0,4 mm (excl. photo cathode tubes and cathode ray tubes)

    • 8540 40 00 Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm
  • 8540 60Other cathode ray tubes

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cathoderay tubes (excl. television and video-monitor cathoderay tubes, television camera tubes, image converters or intensifiers, other photo-cathode tubes, black and white or other monochrome data-graphic display tubes and colour data-graphic display tubes with a phosphor dot screen pitch of < 0,4 mm)

    • 8540 60 00 Other cathode ray tubes
  • 8540 71Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes | Magnetrons

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Magnetrons

    • 8540 71 00 Magnetrons
  • 8540 79Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Microwave tubes, e.g. travelling wave tubes and carcinotrons (excl. magnetrons and grid-controlled tubes)

    • 8540 79 00 Other
  • 8540 81Other valves and tubes | Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes (excl. microwave tubes, photo-cathode tubes and cathode ray tubes)

    • 8540 81 00 Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes
  • 8540 89Other valves and tubes | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electronic valves and tubes (excl. receiver or amplifier valves and tubes, microwave tubes, photo-cathode tubes, cathode ray tubes, black and white or other monochrome data-graphic display tubes and colour data-graphic display tubes with a phosphor dot screen pitch of < 0,4 mm)

    • 8540 89 00 Other
  • 8540 91Parts | Of cathode ray tubes

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of cathode ray tubes, n.e.s.

    • 8540 91 00 Of cathode ray tubes
  • 8540 99Parts | Other

    Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of thermionic, cold cathode or photo cathode valves and tubes, n.e.s. (excl. parts of cathode ray tubes)

    • 8540 99 00 Other

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.