HS Code 19019040
Nutritional supplement for pregnant women and breast feeding mothers, put up for
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 19019040 would be approximately BDT 64,250.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 64.25% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Nutritional supplement for pregnant women and breast feeding mothers, put up for is classified under HS code 19019040, which sits in 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.) of chapter 19 (Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 25%, Supplementary Duty of 0%, VAT of 15%, Advance Income Tax of 5%, Regulatory Duty of 5% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 64.25%, which is the figure to multiply by the assessable value of your consignment.
The assessable value is normally the CIF value of the goods plus landing charges. Duties and taxes are applied in a defined order rather than simply added together, which is why the TTI is not the plain sum of the individual rates.
Recorded imports
Between January 2026 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports under 19019040 in 5 of 6 months, totalling 29,992 kg at an assessable value of BDT 19,909,383. That is an average of BDT 664 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 3,881st largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 21,180 kg | BDT 16,395,240 | BDT 774 |
| February 2026 | 62 kg | BDT 33,792 | BDT 545 |
| March 2026 | 45 kg | BDT 22,528 | BDT 501 |
| April 2026 | 8,680 kg | BDT 3,454,744 | BDT 398 |
| May 2026 | 25 kg | BDT 3,079 | BDT 123 |
Import figures: NBR Import Statements (IM-4 commercial), December 2025 – May 2026. Assessable value is the customs value on which duty is charged, not the retail or invoice price.
Source: NBR Operative Tariff 2026-2027. The full schedule was reconciled against NBR's online duty calculator before publication; figures were last checked against NBR's live operative tariff search on 10 October 2026.
How this line compares
Chapter 19 contains 24 tariff lines, averaging 90.79%. At 64.25%, 19019040 sits below that average by 26.54 percentage points. It is the 17th most heavily taxed line in the chapter.
Across the whole Operative Tariff the mean is 61.08%, so this line is dearer than the typical import by 3.17 points.
Within heading 1901 alone, rates run from 64.25% to 96.1% across 8 lines. Classification inside a single heading can change the bill substantially, so confirm the eight-digit code rather than working from the four-digit heading.
No supplementary duty applies here, which is the normal case — SD is zero on 78% of the tariff. Where it does apply it usually dominates every other component.