HS code 8542: Electronic integrated circuits
Heading 8542 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
8542Electronic integrated circuits
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… > 8542
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Electronic integrated circuits; parts thereof
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 5
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 19
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8542
- 8542 31Electronic integrated circuits | Processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electronic integrated circuits as processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits
- 8542 31 11 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs)
- 8542 31 19 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Other
- 8542 31 90 Other
- 8542 32Electronic integrated circuits | Memories
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electronic integrated circuits as memories
- 8542 32 11 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs)
- 8542 32 19 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Other
- 8542 32 31 Other | Dynamic random-access memories (D-RAMs) | With a storage capacity not exceeding 512 Mbits
- 8542 32 39 Other | Dynamic random-access memories (D-RAMs) | With a storage capacity exceeding 512 Mbits
- 8542 32 45 Other | Static random-access memories (S-RAMs), including cache random-access memories (cache-RAMs)
- 8542 32 55 Other | UV erasable, programmable, read only memories (EPROMs)
- 8542 32 61 Other | Electrically erasable, programmable, read only memories (E2PROMs), including flash E2PROMs | Flash E2PROMs | With a storage capacity not exceeding 512 Mbits
- 8542 32 69 Other | Electrically erasable, programmable, read only memories (E2PROMs), including flash E2PROMs | Flash E2PROMs | With a storage capacity exceeding 512 Mbits
- 8542 32 75 Other | Electrically erasable, programmable, read only memories (E2PROMs), including flash E2PROMs | Other
- 8542 32 90 Other | Other memories
- 8542 33Electronic integrated circuits | Amplifiers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electronic integrated circuits as amplifiers
- 8542 33 10 Multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs)
- 8542 33 90 Other
- 8542 39Electronic integrated circuits | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Electronic integrated circuits (excl. such as processors, controllers, memories and amplifiers)
- 8542 39 11 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Multi-component integrated circuits (MCOs)
- 8542 39 19 Goods specified in note 12(b)(3 and 4) to this chapter | Other
- 8542 39 90 Other
- 8542 90Parts
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of electronic integrated circuits, n.e.s.
- 8542 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.