On October 31, 2025, the EU Commission published changes to the Combined Nomenclature. The 2026 list of goods followed on November 10. Check your goods and customs tariff numbers now.
To prevent incorrect tax assessments and avoid unauthorized exports, companies need the correct commodity codes for their goods – both for export and import. However, this is not a one-off affair: At the turn of the year, the Combined Nomenclature (CN) code is being reissued.
With the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926 of September 22, 2025, which was published by the EU Commission on October 31, 2025, the changes to the Combined Nomenclature, i.e. the 7th and 8th digits of the commodity codes in the EU, are known.
The commodity codes listed in the Annex must be reported by companies in exports or intra-Community transactions from January 1, 2026.
The most important changes at a glance:
Other changes include dichloroethylene, which is no longer considered a derivative of ethane. It should now be classified under mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of ethylene or propylene. In some subheadings, descriptions (731700 and 84272011) and the assignment of the previous footnotes were also adjusted to achieve greater clarity. The special unit of measurement has been removed for the CN code 70191900.
Product Classification is a reliable, intuitive tool for finding just the right import and export commodity code and export control number – in a process that can be manual, automated, or customized to your precise needs.
The additional note 1 to chapter 95 will be deleted. This defined that subheading 950510 also includes traditional Christmas and Advent articles and decorations for Christmas trees. As this affects the EU-wide uniform classification of Christmas articles, the change came into force just one day after publication in the Official Journal of the EU.
The UK's HM Revenue & Customs implements regular updates to its commodity code structure to ensure dynamic alignment with the EU. Relevant alignments to the EU's Combined Nomenclature from September to November refer to the following:
Please refer to the full trade tariff news bulletin for all tariff stop press notifications under the UK Integrated Online Tariff including links to further details.
AEB will promptly publish what you should bear in mind when changing your commodity codes manually or automatically in the AEB Help Center. Export Filing: The new commodity codes will be available in the application after rollout of the December service pack.
To replace the new commodity codes in your material master and the templates in the AEB web applications, use the "Update commodity codes" menu function in your material master.
Keep in mind: Only run the "Update commodity codes" function when you no longer need to send any declarations for 2025.
