HS Chapter 53

Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn

10 headings · 25 HS codes. Choose a 4-digit heading to see its tariff lines.

Heading 5301 Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) 5 codes Heading 5302 True hemp (cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) 2 codes Heading 5303 Jute and other textile bast fibres (not flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres, including yarn waste and garnetted stock 2 codes Heading 5305 Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres n.e.c., raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) 2 codes Heading 5306 Flax yarn 2 codes Heading 5307 Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5305 2 codes Heading 5308 Yarn of other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn 3 codes Heading 5309 Woven fabrics of flax 4 codes Heading 5310 Woven fabrics of jute, other textile bast fibres of heading no. 5303 2 codes Heading 5311 Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn 1 codes

Recorded imports

Between December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports worth BDT 661,456,218 (951,614 kg) under this chapter, across 17 of its 25 tariff lines. The remaining 8 recorded no commercial import in that window.

Month	Lines with imports	Net weight	Assessable value
December 2025	13	283,668 kg	BDT 200,190,628
January 2026	9	182,016 kg	BDT 128,869,231
February 2026	9	140,253 kg	BDT 103,424,759
March 2026	10	182,258 kg	BDT 140,423,366
April 2026	13	75,792 kg	BDT 39,524,195
May 2026	10	87,627 kg	BDT 49,024,039

The largest lines by assessable value in May 2026:

53012990 — Flax, Hackled Or Otherwise Processed, But Not Spun — BDT 40,160,779
53012910 — Flax, Hackled Or Otherwise Processed, But Not Spun — BDT 7,292,438
53031000 — Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted — BDT 742,840
53081000 — Coir Yarn — BDT 546,764
53050090 — Coconut, avaca.... Excl. Coco substrate; coco pellet; growing media — BDT 252,940

Bonded imports. A further BDT 25,614,106,969 (13,956,530 kg) entered under the bonded-warehouse regime over the same months — duty-free inputs imported against an undertaking to re-export them. That is 97.5% of everything imported under this chapter: most of this trade never pays the duty rates shown above.

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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