HS Chapter 19

Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products

5 headings · 24 HS codes. Choose a 4-digit heading to see its tariff lines.

Heading 1901 Malt extract; flour/groats/meal/starch/malt extract products, no cocoa (or less than 40% by weight) and food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, no cocoa (or less than 5% by weight), weights calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.c. 8 codes Heading 1902 Pasta; whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substance, or otherwise prepared, egg spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared 5 codes Heading 1903 Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch; in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar forms 1 codes Heading 1904 Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products (e.g. corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (not flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.c. 4 codes Heading 1905 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products 6 codes

Recorded imports

Between December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports worth BDT 11,235,051,762 (35,487,780 kg) under this chapter, across 23 of its 24 tariff lines. The remaining 1 recorded no commercial import in that window.

NBR's import statements also record 2 codes under this chapter that the published Operative Tariff 2026-2027 does not list (19019050, 19019099). Those figures are included in the totals above but have no tariff page here, because there is no published rate to show.

Month	Lines with imports	Net weight	Assessable value
December 2025	19	5,378,905 kg	BDT 1,421,556,283
January 2026	20	5,325,138 kg	BDT 1,897,588,726
February 2026	20	5,433,559 kg	BDT 2,145,691,886
March 2026	21	4,624,286 kg	BDT 1,540,738,139
April 2026	20	7,428,281 kg	BDT 1,994,544,467
May 2026	21	7,297,611 kg	BDT 2,234,932,261

The largest lines by assessable value in May 2026:

19019011 — Filled milk powder — BDT 1,169,685,663
19019030 — Preparations for infant or young children — BDT 606,299,146
19011000 — Preparations suitable for infants or young children, put up for retail sale — BDT 190,779,545
19030000 — Tapioca & Substitutes Prpd.From Starch In Flakes,Grains,Pearls,Sifting Etc — BDT 117,933,907
19019020 — Dry mixed ingredients of food preparations — BDT 30,441,999

Bonded imports. A further BDT 153,068,359 (653,225 kg) entered under the bonded-warehouse regime over the same months — duty-free inputs imported against an undertaking to re-export them. That is 1.3% of the total value imported under this chapter.

Import figures: NBR Import Statements (IM-4 commercial, IM-7 bonded), December 2025 – May 2026. Assessable value is the customs value on which duty is charged, not the retail or invoice price.

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