HS Chapter 38

Miscellaneous chemical products

27 headings · 139 HS codes. Choose a 4-digit heading to see its tariff lines.

Heading 3801 Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures 5 codes Heading 3802 Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black 2 codes Heading 3803 Tall oil, whether or not refined 1 codes Heading 3804 Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading no. 3803 1 codes Heading 3805 Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine, other terpenic oils; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine, other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent 2 codes Heading 3806 Rosin and resin acids and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums 7 codes Heading 3807 Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch 1 codes Heading 3808 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators, disinfectants and the like, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles 21 codes Heading 3809 Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing, fixing of dyestuffs, other products and preparations, of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.c. or included 4 codes Heading 3810 Metal-pickling preparations; fluxes etc for soldering, brazing; welding powders, pastes of metal and other materials; preparations used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods 3 codes Heading 3811 Anti-knock preparations, oxidation and gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and the like, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or other liquids used for the same purposes 5 codes Heading 3812 Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, n.e.c. or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics 5 codes Heading 3813 Preparations and charges for fire extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades 1 codes Heading 3814 Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers 2 codes Heading 3815 Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations n.e.c. or included 4 codes Heading 3816 Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38.01 2 codes Heading 3817 Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading no. 2707 or 2902 2 codes Heading 3818 Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics 1 codes Heading 3819 Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals 1 codes Heading 3820 Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids 1 codes Heading 3821 Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells 1 codes Heading 3822 Reagents; diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials 5 codes Heading 3823 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols 5 codes Heading 3824 Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included 25 codes Heading 3825 Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other residual products. 9 codes Heading 3826 Biodiesel and mixtures thereof; not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals 1 codes Heading 3827 Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included 22 codes

Recorded imports

Between December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports worth BDT 51,021,781,623 (222,740,848 kg) under this chapter, across 103 of its 139 tariff lines. The remaining 36 recorded no commercial import in that window.

NBR's import statements also record one code under this chapter that the published Operative Tariff 2026-2027 does not list (38249990). 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	84	43,045,917 kg	BDT 10,470,048,144
January 2026	78	48,325,877 kg	BDT 9,296,701,169
February 2026	84	29,590,913 kg	BDT 7,855,732,808
March 2026	77	33,324,496 kg	BDT 8,014,882,618
April 2026	77	37,914,020 kg	BDT 8,172,919,940
May 2026	84	30,539,625 kg	BDT 7,211,496,944

The largest lines by assessable value in May 2026:

38089210 — Fungicides For Dairy, Poultry and Agricultural purposes — BDT 1,014,456,661
38089110 — Insecticides For Dairy, Poultry and Agricultural purposes — BDT 985,914,557
38089310 — Herbi., anti-sprouting prod.&plant-growth regu.:For Dairy, Poultry and Agricul — BDT 676,697,589
38249999 — Other — BDT 502,371,750
38229000 — Dianostic or Lab. Reagent, NES — BDT 491,105,023

Bonded imports. A further BDT 15,341,958,667 (50,333,235 kg) entered under the bonded-warehouse regime over the same months — duty-free inputs imported against an undertaking to re-export them. That is 23.1% 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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