HS Code 34011900
Soap And Organic Surface-Active Products In Bars, Etc, Nes
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 34011900 would be approximately BDT 189,200.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 189.2% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Soap And Organic Surface-Active Products In Bars, Etc, Nes is classified under HS code 34011900, which sits in heading 3401 (Soap; organic surface-active preparations used as soap, skin washing, in bars, cakes, moulded pieces, shapes, liquid or cream, containing soap or not; for retail, paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent) of chapter 34 (Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing and lubricating preparations, waxes, candles, modelling pastes).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 25%, Supplementary Duty of 60%, VAT of 15%, Advance Income Tax of 5%, Regulatory Duty of 20% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 189.2%, 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 December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports under 34011900 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 101,727 kg at an assessable value of BDT 83,884,104. That is an average of BDT 825 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 1,719th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 23,558 kg | BDT 24,897,202 | BDT 1,057 |
| January 2026 | 17,933 kg | BDT 20,094,144 | BDT 1,121 |
| February 2026 | 12,186 kg | BDT 12,865,224 | BDT 1,056 |
| March 2026 | 12,755 kg | BDT 12,456,959 | BDT 977 |
| April 2026 | 18,876 kg | BDT 5,889,203 | BDT 312 |
| May 2026 | 16,419 kg | BDT 7,681,372 | BDT 468 |
Bonded imports. A further 78,830 kg worth BDT 18,716,066 entered under the bonded-warehouse regime in the same period — goods brought in duty-free as inputs on the undertaking that they leave again as exports, which in Bangladesh overwhelmingly means ready-made garments. Bonded entries account for 18.2% of the total value imported under this code, the rest entering commercially.
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.
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 34 contains 34 tariff lines, averaging 72.25%. At 189.2%, 34011900 sits above that average by 116.95 percentage points. It is the 1st 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 128.12 points.
This line carries supplementary duty of 60%. Only 1,633 of 7,469 lines carry any SD at all, and because it is charged after customs and regulatory duty, and VAT is then charged on top of it, it affects the total far more than the rate alone suggests.