HS Code 48172000
Letter Cards, Plain Postcards And Correspondance Cards Of Paper...
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 48172000 would be approximately BDT 64,250.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 64.25% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Letter Cards, Plain Postcards And Correspondance Cards Of Paper... is classified under HS code 48172000, which sits in heading 4817 (Envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards and correspondence cards, of paper, paperboard; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums, of paper or paperboard containing assortment of paper stationery) of chapter 48 (Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard).
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 December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports under 48172000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 614 kg at an assessable value of BDT 306,359. That is an average of BDT 499 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 3,688th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 90 kg | BDT 45,194 | BDT 502 |
| January 2026 | 226 kg | BDT 117,946 | BDT 522 |
| February 2026 | 171 kg | BDT 92,318 | BDT 540 |
| March 2026 | 38 kg | BDT 21,904 | BDT 576 |
| April 2026 | 21 kg | BDT 12,888 | BDT 614 |
| May 2026 | 68 kg | BDT 16,109 | BDT 237 |
Bonded imports. A further 41,173 kg worth BDT 5,918,457 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. That is 95.1% of everything imported under this code. In practice this line is an export input rather than a product entering the domestic market, so the duty rates above apply to only a small fraction of the trade.
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 48 contains 126 tariff lines, averaging 67.51%. At 64.25%, 48172000 sits below that average by 3.26 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.
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.