HS Code 55031900
Syn.Sta.fibres,not carded, combed or othrwise pro.for spin.Of nylon or othr po
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 55031900 would be approximately BDT 12,500.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 12.5% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Syn.Sta.fibres,not carded, combed or othrwise pro.for spin.Of nylon or othr po is classified under HS code 55031900, which sits in heading 5503 (Synthetic staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning) of chapter 55 (Man-made staple fibres).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 0%, Supplementary Duty of 0%, VAT of 0%, Advance Income Tax of 5%, Regulatory Duty of 0% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 12.5%, 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 55031900 in 4 of 6 months, totalling 617 kg at an assessable value of BDT 267,395. That is an average of BDT 433 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 3,691st largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 20 kg | BDT 26,041 | BDT 1,302 |
| March 2026 | 25 kg | BDT 15,830 | BDT 633 |
| April 2026 | 569 kg | BDT 209,777 | BDT 369 |
| May 2026 | 3 kg | BDT 15,747 | BDT 5,249 |
Bonded imports. A further 18,859 kg worth BDT 21,480,293 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 98.8% 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 55 contains 113 tariff lines, averaging 62%. At 12.5%, 55031900 sits below that average by 49.5 percentage points. It is the 110th 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 48.58 points.
Within heading 5503 alone, rates run from 5% to 28.63% across 6 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.