EU Combined Nomenclature · CN code · HS 8447.90

8447 90 00: Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines: other

✓ Can be used in a customs declaration Data: EU Combined Nomenclature, in force from 1 January 2026 · checked on 24 October 2026

8447 Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting:
8447 90 00 Other

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What you pay

Importing into EU

Customs duty 1.7% standard rate depends on the country of origin

Additional duties and charges 2 additional measures Import requirements: 5

VAT standard rate of the member state of import, 17% to 27%

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Additional duties and import rules

Charges on top of the customs duty, and rules the goods must meet at the border.

Additional duties and charges 3

Duty on low-value parcelsLow-value consignment customs duty 3 EUR

Applies to goods from
all countries

In force
until 31 October 2026

Legal act
Regulation 0382/26
Duty on low-value parcelsLow-value consignment customs duty 3 EUR
Applies to goods from
all countries

In force
from 1 November 2026

Legal act
Regulation 0382/26
Documents
- C127 Merchant product identifier
- C128 Non-standardised manufacturer product identifier
- C129 Standardised manufacturer product identifier
- Y081 No standardised manufacturer product identifier for the declared product exists
Handling feeUnion handling fee 2 EUR
Applies to goods from
all countries

In force
from 1 November 2026

Legal act
Regulation 2108/26
Documents
- Y126 Goods sold in distance sales

Import requirements 5

Prohibition or restrictionImport prohibition

Applies to goods from
North Korea

Legal act
Regulation 0285/18
Import controlRestriction on entry into free circulation
Applies to goods from
North Korea

Legal act
Regulation 1509/17
Documents
- Y970 Goods other than those described in the MG footnotes linked to the measure (Annex II, Part VI of Reg. (EU) 2017/1509)
Import controlImport control on restricted goods and technologies
Applies to goods from
Iran, Libya, North Korea

Legal act
Regulation 0267/12, Regulation 1509/17, Regulation 0044/16
Documents
- Y966 Goods other than those described in the MG footnotes linked to the measure (Missile Technology Control Regime list - Annex III of Reg. (EU) 267/2012)
- Y920 Goods other than those described in the footnotes linked to the measure
Import control
Applies to goods from
North Korea, Ukraine

Legal act
Regulation 1509/17, Regulation 0692/14
Documents
- Y963 Goods other than those described in the MG footnotes linked to the measure (Annex II, Part IV of Reg. (EU) 2017/1509)
- Y997 Goods not originating from or destined to Crimea or Sevastopol (Articles 2 and 2b.1 of Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014)
- N864 Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
- N954 Movement certificate EUR.1
Import control
Applies to goods from
Ukraine

Legal act
Regulation 0263/22
Documents
- Y984 Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
- N954 Movement certificate EUR.1
- N864 Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document

Export measures 19

Prohibitions, licences, controls and sanctions that apply when these goods leave the EU.

Export measures	Destination	Legal act	Validity
Export prohibitionSanctions regime: North Korea	North Korea	Regulation 0285/18	28 February 2018
Restriction on exportSanctions regime: North Korea	North Korea	Regulation 1509/17	20 September 2017
Export authorizationSanctions regime: North Korea	North Korea	Regulation 1509/17	1 July 2019
Export authorizationSanctions regime: Russia	Russia	Regulation 1485/24	4 June 2024
Restriction on exportSanctions regime: Iran	Iran	Regulation 0267/12	23 October 2017
Export controlSanctions regime: Belarus	Belarus	Regulation 0765/06	1 July 2024
Export controlSanctions regime: Crimea and Sevastopol	Ukraine	Regulation 0692/14	25 February 2025
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Myanmar/Burma	Myanmar (Burma)	Regulation 0401/13	3 May 2013
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Iran (human rights)	Iran	Regulation 0264/12	9 February 2016
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Venezuela	Venezuela	Regulation 2063/17	14 November 2017
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Syria	Syria	Regulation 0036/12	19 January 2012
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Regulation 0284/17	19 February 2017
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Libya	Libya	Regulation 0044/16	20 January 2016
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: Belarus	Belarus	Regulation 0765/06	25 June 2021
Export control on restricted goods and technologiesSanctions regime: North Korea	North Korea	Regulation 1509/17	1 September 2017
Export controlSanctions regime: Non-government-controlled areas of Ukraine	Ukraine	Regulation 0263/22	25 August 2022
Export controlSanctions regime: Russia	Russia	Regulation 0833/14	24 June 2023
Export controlSanctions regime: Belarus	Belarus	Regulation 0765/06	25 February 2025
Export authorization (Dual use)	All third countries	Regulation 2003/25	15 November 2025

TARIC data as of 26 October 2026

Import VAT in the EU member states

The rate each member state applies to goods of this code, from the Commission’s Taxes in Europe Database. A reduced rate can cover only part of the goods under a code: check the national VAT law.

Austria 20%
Belgium 21%
Bulgaria 20%
Croatia 25%
Cyprus 3% / 5% reduced rate
Czechia 21%
Denmark 25%
Estonia 24%
Finland 25.5%
France 20%
Germany 19%
Greece 24%
Hungary 27%
Ireland 23%
Italy 22%
Latvia 21%
Lithuania 21%
Luxembourg 17%
Malta 18%
Netherlands 21%
Poland 23%
Portugal 23%
Romania 21%
Slovakia 23%
Slovenia 22%
Spain 21%
Sweden 25%

TEDB · 26 October 2026

Preferential rates by country

Agreement or scheme	Countries	Rate
standard rate (no agreement)	—	1.7%
GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms)	Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin and 42 more Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo - Kinshasa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia	Free
CARIFORUM	Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize and 10 more Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago	Free
OCTs (Overseas Countries and Territories)	Antarctica, Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao and 8 more Antarctica, Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Greenland, New Caledonia, Sint Maarten, St Barthélemy, St Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna	Free
GSP - General arrangements	Congo - Brazzaville, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Kenya and 6 more Congo - Brazzaville, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Kenya, Micronesia, Nigeria, Niue, Syria, Tajikistan, Vanuatu	Free
GSP+ (incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance)	Bolivia, Cape Verde, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and 4 more Bolivia, Cape Verde, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan	Free
Central America	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama	Free
Mercosur	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	Free
SADC EPA	Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia	Free
EEA - European Economic Area	Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway	Free
Eastern and Southern Africa States	Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe	Free
EU–Andorra customs union	Andorra	Free
EU–Albania agreement	Albania	Free
EU–Bosnia & Herzegovina agreement	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Free
EU–Canada agreement	Canada	Free
EU–Switzerland agreement	Switzerland	Free
EU–Côte d’Ivoire agreement	Côte d’Ivoire	Free
EU–Chile agreement	Chile	Free
EU–Cameroon agreement	Cameroon	Free
EU–Colombia agreement	Colombia	Free
EU–Algeria agreement	Algeria	Free
EU–Ecuador agreement	Ecuador	Free
EU–Egypt agreement	Egypt	Free
Preferential origin in accordance with the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part.	Western Sahara	Free
EU–Fiji agreement	Fiji	Free
EU–Faroe Islands agreement	Faroe Islands	Free
EU–United Kingdom agreement	United Kingdom	Free
EU–Georgia agreement	Georgia	Free
EU–Ghana agreement	Ghana	Free
EU–Israel agreement	Israel	Free
EU–Jordan agreement	Jordan	Free
EU–Japan agreement	Japan	Free
EU–South Korea agreement	South Korea	Free
EU–Lebanon agreement	Lebanon	Free
EU–Morocco agreement	Morocco	Free
EU–Moldova agreement	Moldova	Free
EU–Montenegro agreement	Montenegro	Free
EU–North Macedonia agreement	North Macedonia	Free
EU–Mexico agreement	Mexico	Free
EU–New Zealand agreement	New Zealand	Free
EU–Peru agreement	Peru	Free
EU–Papua New Guinea agreement	Papua New Guinea	Free
EU–Palestinian Territories agreement	Palestinian Territories	Free
EU–Serbia agreement	Serbia	Free
EU–Singapore agreement	Singapore	Free
EU–San Marino customs union	San Marino	Free
EU–Tunisia agreement	Tunisia	Free
EU–Türkiye customs union	Türkiye	Free
EU–Ukraine agreement	Ukraine	Free
EU–United States agreement	United States	Free
EU–Vietnam agreement	Vietnam	Free
EU–Samoa agreement	Samoa	Free
EU–Kosovo agreement	Kosovo	Free
EU–South Africa agreement	South Africa	Free

EU: imports by month · HS 8447.90

last 12 months€51.9m-3.8% · previous 12 months

Average import price€8.06 per kg

Preferential rate43%

Data up to August 2026 (provisional) · Monthly data: Eurostat Comext (CC BY 4.0), HMRC (OGL v3.0)

Main suppliers, last 12 months

Country	Value	Share	Change
Japan	€14.7m	28.2%	-7.8%
China	€13.6m	26.2%	-9.7%
Taiwan	€7.7m	14.9%	-16.5%
Vietnam	€5.1m	9.9%	+52.2%
United States	€4.1m	7.9%	+70.8%
Switzerland	€2.8m	5.4%	+116.8%
Thailand	€2.5m	4.8%	+31.6%
United Kingdom	€354k	0.7%	-36.7%

Same subheading in other tariffs

8447.90 Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines: other

UK Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Türkiye 1.7% Third-country duty 3 tariff lines

USA Free General (MFN) 3 tariff lines

Canada Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Mexico Free Third-country duty 2 tariff lines

Brazil 7.2% – 20% Third-country duty 3 tariff lines · average 11.5%

Argentina Free – 12.6% Third-country duty 3 tariff lines · average 4.2%

Peru Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

New Zealand Free Third-country duty 2 tariff lines

Japan Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Taiwan 3% Third-country duty 1 tariff line

GCC 5% Third-country duty 7 tariff lines

Switzerland Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Norway Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

North Macedonia Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Nigeria 5% Third-country duty 1 tariff line

Legal notes

Chapter notes: Chapter 84 →

CN Explanatory Notes

The European Commission's explanatory notes on how to classify goods in these CN codes. They are not legally binding but customs authorities follow them; they complement the HS Explanatory Notes of the World Customs Organization.

8447 90 00 · Other

In addition to the machines described in the HS Explanatory Note to heading 8447, (C), this subheading includes:

1. hand embroidery machines (embroidery machines with pantograph shuttles), automatic shuttle embroidery machines, equipped with jacquard or similar mechanisms, embroidery machines with a number of needles, and multi-head automatic embroidery machines (with several machine heads on one table and equipped with a jacquard or similar mechanism);

2. bobbin lace machines, which produce lace consisting of one or several threads (bobbin lace) using bobbins;

3. braiding and spindle machines, which, by interlacing threads by means of feeders (spindles) equipped with bobbins of thread and making circular and sinusoidal trajectories, produce articles in the piece (for example, flat or round braids) or in shapes (piping, braids, rovings, tubular braids, piping for garments), or cover buttons, wooden articles, fluting, etc., with threads (for example, round braid looms, tubular plait looms, packing braid looms).

However, special braiding machines intended for covering cable wire or other electrical conductors or which braid or twist flexible wire conductors, fall in heading 8479;

4. machines for making trimmings (other than the braid-making machines referred to in 3 above), including:

(a) machines for making pompons and chenille;

(b) machines for making round and fancy chenille and machines for making chenille garlands for Christmas trees;

However, balancing machines, i.e., weaving machines for making ribbons or trimmings, fall in heading 8446 and crochet machines for making trimmings fall in subheading 8447 20 20 or 8447 20 80.

General notes to the chapter

NUCLEAR REACTORS, BOILERS, MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL APPLIANCES; PARTS THEREOF

General

For the purposes of subheadings 8407 34 10, 8407 90 50 and 8408 20 10, ‘for the industrial assembly’ applies only to the series-assembly of new vehicles in factories which manufacture or assemble motor vehicles (including subcontractors).

These subheadings can be applied only to engines actually used in the production of new vehicles of the kinds referred to in the subheadings. Consequently, they do not cover similar engines used as spare parts.

Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, Official Journal C (consolidated text and later amendments) · © European Union

This line in earlier years

The Combined Nomenclature of each year, as published in the Official Journal: description, third-country duty and supplementary unit.

Year	Description	Third-country duty	Supplementary unit
2026	Other	1.7%	p/st
2025	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2024	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2023	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2022	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2021	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2020	unchanged	1.7%	p/st
2019	Other	1.7%	p/st

CN code 8447 90 00 is a line of the EU Combined Nomenclature under HS subheading 8447.90 (knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines: other).

The third-country duty is 1.7%, and quantities are declared in p/st.

152 countries pay no duty in the EU thanks to trade agreements and preference schemes such as GSP-EBA and CARIFORUM, against a standard rate of 1.7%.

Imports of goods of subheading 8447.90 into the EU came to €51.9m between September 2025 and August 2026 (down 4% on the year before); Japan supplied 28%, followed by China.

For the same subheading, the UK duty is free, the Türkiye duty is 1.7%, the US duty is free, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is free, the Brazil duty is 7.2%–20%, the Argentina duty is 0%–12.6%, the Peru duty is free, the New Zealand duty is free, the Japan duty is free, the Taiwan duty is 3%, the GCC duty is 5%, the Switzerland duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is free and the Nigeria duty is 5%.

EU member states imported goods of subheading 8447.90 worth US$85m in 2024; the largest supplier from outside the EU was China.

Questions and answers

What is the EU import duty for CN code 8447 90 00?

The third-country duty in the EU Combined Nomenclature is 1.7%; the supplementary unit is p/st. Preferential rates for goods from agreement countries, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.

Which countries get a lower rate on 8447 90 00?

152 countries have a preferential rate on this line, 152 of them at 0%, under GSP-EBA, CARIFORUM and OCTs and other arrangements. The rate applies only to goods that meet the rules of origin of the agreement, with proof of origin. Choose the country of origin on this page to see its rate.

Where does the EU import these goods from?

For subheading 8447.90 as a whole, the largest supplier from outside the EU in 2024 was China (US$12m), followed by Japan.

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