HS code 8541: Semiconductor devices
Heading 8541 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
8541Semiconductor devices (for example, diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers); photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED), whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes (LED); mounted piezo-electric crystals
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… > 8541
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Semiconductor devices "e.g. diodes, transistors, semiconductor-based transducers"; photosensitive semiconductor devices, incl. photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels (excl. photovoltaic generators); light emitting diodes "LED", whether or not assembled with other light-emitting diodes "LED"; mounted piezoelectric crystals; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 12
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 12
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8541
- 8541 10Diodes, other than photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (LED)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Diodes (excl. photosensitive or light emitting diodes "LED")
- 8541 10 00 Diodes, other than photosensitive or light-emitting diodes (LED)
- 8541 21Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors | With a dissipation rate of less than 1 W
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Transistors with a dissipation rate < 1 W (excl. photosensitive transistors)
- 8541 21 00 With a dissipation rate of less than 1 W
- 8541 29Transistors, other than photosensitive transistors | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Transistors with a dissipation rate >= 1 W (excl. photosensitive transistors)
- 8541 29 00 Other
- 8541 30Thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Thyristors, diacs and triacs (excl. photosensitive semiconductor devices)
- 8541 30 00 Thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices
- 8541 41Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED) | Light-emitting diodes (LED)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Light emitting diodes "LED"
- 8541 41 00 Light-emitting diodes (LED)
- 8541 42Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED) | Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up into panels
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up into panels
- 8541 42 00 Photovoltaic cells not assembled in modules or made up into panels
- 8541 43Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED) | Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels
- 8541 43 00 Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules or made up into panels
- 8541 49Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light-emitting diodes (LED) | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Photosensitive semiconductor devices (excl. photovoltaic generators and cells)
- 8541 49 00 Other
- 8541 51Other semiconductor devices | Semiconductor-based transducers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Semiconductor-based transducers (excl. photosensitive)
- 8541 51 00 Semiconductor-based transducers
- 8541 59Other semiconductor devices | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Semiconductor devices, n.e.s.
- 8541 59 00 Other
- 8541 60Mounted piezo-electric crystals
- 8541 60 00 Mounted piezo-electric crystals
- 8541 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, light emitting diodes and mounted piezoelectric crystals, n.e.s.
- 8541 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.