HS code 8705: Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those
Heading 8705 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 87, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
8705Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units)
Place in the nomenclature: 87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof > 8705
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Special purpose motor vehicles (other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods), e.g. breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 5
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 6
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8705
- 8705 10Crane lorries
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Crane lorries (excl. breakdown lorries)
- 8705 10 00 Crane lorries
- 8705 20Mobile drilling derricks
- 8705 20 00 Mobile drilling derricks
- 8705 30Fire fighting vehicles
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Fire fighting vehicles (excl. vehicles for transporting persons)
- 8705 30 00 Fire fighting vehicles
- 8705 40Concrete-mixer lorries
- 8705 40 00 Concrete-mixer lorries
- 8705 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Special purpose motor vehicles (other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods and excl. concrete-mixer lorries, fire fighting vehicles, mobile drilling derricks and crane lorries)
- 8705 90 30 Concrete-pumping vehicles
- 8705 90 80 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.