HS code 9027: Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
Heading 9027 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
9027Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes
Place in the nomenclature: 90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof > 9027
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, e.g. polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light, incl. exposure meters; microtomes
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 10
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 9027
- 9027 10Gas or smoke analysis apparatus
- 9027 10 10 Electronic
- 9027 10 90 Other
- 9027 20Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments
- 9027 20 00 Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments
- 9027 30Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiation (UV, visible, IR)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiations, such as UV, visible, IR
- 9027 30 00 Spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs using optical radiation (UV, visible, IR)
- 9027 50Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiation (UV, visible, IR)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, using UV, visible or IR optical radiations (excl. spectrometers, spectrophotometers, spectrographs, and gas or smoke analysis apparatus)
- 9027 50 00 Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiation (UV, visible, IR)
- 9027 81Other instruments and apparatus | Mass spectrometers
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Mass spectrometers
- 9027 81 00 Mass spectrometers
- 9027 89Other instruments and apparatus | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, or for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like, or for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light, n.e.s.
- 9027 89 10 Exposure meters
- 9027 89 30 pH meters, rH meters and other apparatus for measuring conductivity
- 9027 89 90 Other
- 9027 90Microtomes; parts and accessories
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Microtomes; parts and accessories of instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like, instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light, and of microtomes, n.e.s.
- 9027 90 00 Microtomes; parts and accessories
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.