HS Code 39053000
Polyvinyl Alcohol, Whether Or Not Containing Unhydrolysed Acetate Groups
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 39053000 would be approximately BDT 39,750.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 39.75% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Polyvinyl Alcohol, Whether Or Not Containing Unhydrolysed Acetate Groups is classified under HS code 39053000, which sits in heading 3905 (Polymers of vinyl acetate or of other vinyl esters, in primary forms; other vinyl polymers in primary forms) of chapter 39 (Plastics and articles thereof).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 10%, Supplementary Duty of 0%, VAT of 15%, Advance Income Tax of 5%, Regulatory Duty of 0% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 39.75%, 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 39053000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 1,298,918 kg at an assessable value of BDT 220,708,179. That is an average of BDT 170 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 1,011th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 140,742 kg | BDT 30,001,206 | BDT 213 |
| January 2026 | 241,351 kg | BDT 36,476,241 | BDT 151 |
| February 2026 | 140,650 kg | BDT 23,012,689 | BDT 164 |
| March 2026 | 332,953 kg | BDT 62,016,998 | BDT 186 |
| April 2026 | 281,220 kg | BDT 43,252,644 | BDT 154 |
| May 2026 | 162,002 kg | BDT 25,948,401 | BDT 160 |
Bonded imports. A further 484,585 kg worth BDT 150,807,578 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 40.6% 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 39 contains 185 tariff lines, averaging 57.55%. At 39.75%, 39053000 sits below that average by 17.8 percentage points. It is the 92nd most heavily taxed line in the chapter.
Across the whole Operative Tariff the mean is 61.08%, so this line is cheaper than the typical import by 21.33 points.
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.