CN 8540
Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode ray tubes, television camera tubes)
| Code | Description | Unit | Third-country duty | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes | ||||
| 8540 11 | Colour | TARIC | ||
| 8540 11 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 14% | TARIC |
| 8540 11 00 90 | Other | p/st | 14% | TARIC |
| 8540 12 | Monochrome | TARIC | ||
| 8540 12 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 7.5% | TARIC |
| 8540 12 00 90 | Other | p/st | 7.5% | TARIC |
| 8540 20 | Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photocathode tubes | TARIC | ||
| 8540 20 10 | Television camera tubes | TARIC | ||
| 8540 20 10 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 20 10 90 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 20 80 | Other | TARIC | ||
| 8540 20 80 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| Other | ||||
| 8540 20 80 91 | Photomultiplier | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 20 80 99 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 40 | Data/graphic display tubes, monochrome; data/graphic display tubes, colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0,4 mm | TARIC | ||
| 8540 40 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.6% | TARIC |
| 8540 40 00 90 | Other | p/st | 2.6% | TARIC |
| 8540 60 | Other cathode ray tubes | TARIC | ||
| 8540 60 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.6% | TARIC |
| 8540 60 00 80 | Other | p/st | 2.6% | TARIC |
| Microwave tubes (for example, magnetrons, klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes | ||||
| 8540 71 | Magnetrons | TARIC | ||
| 8540 71 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 71 00 90 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 79 | Other | TARIC | ||
| 8540 79 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 79 00 90 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| Other valves and tubes | ||||
| 8540 81 | Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes | TARIC | ||
| 8540 81 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 81 00 90 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 89 | Other | TARIC | ||
| 8540 89 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| Other | ||||
| 8540 89 00 91 | Displays in the form of a tube consisting of a glass housing mounted on a board the dimensions of which do not exceed 300 mm !x! 350 mm excluding leads. The tube contains one or more rows of characters or lines arranged in rows, each character or line consisting of fluorescent or phosphorescent elements. These elements are mounted on a metallised base which is covered with fluorescent substances or phosphorescent salts which give off light when bombarded with electrons | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| 8540 89 00 99 | Other | p/st | 2.7% | TARIC |
| Parts | ||||
| 8540 91 | Of cathode ray tubes | TARIC | ||
| 8540 91 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | 2.7% | TARIC | |
| 8540 91 00 20 | Thermionic electron source (emitter point) of lanthanum hexaboride (CAS RN 12008-21-8) or cerium hexaboride (CAS RN 12008-02-5), with electric connectors - with or without a metal housing, - with or without a graphite carbon shield mounted in a mini-Vogel type system, - with or without separate pyrolytic carbon blocks used as heating elements, and - a cathode temperature of less than 1 800 K at a filament current of 1,26 A | 2.7% | TARIC | |
| 8540 91 00 90 | Other | 2.7% | TARIC | |
| 8540 99 | Other | TARIC | ||
| 8540 99 00 10 | For use in certain types of aircraft | 2.7% | TARIC | |
| 8540 99 00 90 | Other | 2.7% | TARIC | |
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Source: European Commission (DG TAXUD), TARIC and Combined Nomenclature data as extracted on 1 October 2026. Heading 8540 in the TARIC consultation
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