HS code 9021: Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts
Heading 9021 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 90, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
9021Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
Place in the nomenclature: 90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof > 9021
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Orthopaedic appliances, incl. crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 8
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 12
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 9021
- 9021 10Orthopaedic or fracture appliances
- 9021 10 10 Orthopaedic appliances
- 9021 10 90 Splints and other fracture appliances
- 9021 21Artificial teeth and dental fittings | Artificial teeth
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Artificial teeth
- 9021 21 10 Of plastics
- 9021 21 90 Of other materials
- 9021 29Artificial teeth and dental fittings | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Dental fittings (excl. artificial teeth)
- 9021 29 00 Other
- 9021 31Other artificial parts of the body | Artificial joints
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Artificial joints for orthopaedic purposes
- 9021 31 00 Artificial joints
- 9021 39Other artificial parts of the body | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Artificial parts of the body (excl. artificial teeth and dental fittings and artificial joints)
- 9021 39 10 Ocular prostheses
- 9021 39 90 Other
- 9021 40Hearing aids, excluding parts and accessories
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Hearing aids (excl. parts and accessories)
- 9021 40 00 Hearing aids, excluding parts and accessories
- 9021 50Pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles, excluding parts and accessories
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles (excl. parts and accessories)
- 9021 50 00 Pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles, excluding parts and accessories
- 9021 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Articles and appliances, which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability (excl. artificial parts of the body, complete hearing aids and complete pacemakers for stimulating heart muscles)
- 9021 90 10 Parts and accessories of hearing aids
- 9021 90 90 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.