HS Code 83030000
Armoured Or Reinforced Safes, Strong-Boxes And Doors... Of Base Metal
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 83030000 would be approximately BDT 64,250.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 64.25% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Armoured Or Reinforced Safes, Strong-Boxes And Doors... Of Base Metal is classified under HS code 83030000, which sits in heading 8303 (Safes; armoured or reinforced, strong-boxes, doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal) of chapter 83 (Miscellaneous articles of base metal).
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 83030000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 136,241 kg at an assessable value of BDT 44,352,894. That is an average of BDT 326 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 2,017th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 25,373 kg | BDT 10,146,205 | BDT 400 |
| January 2026 | 37,394 kg | BDT 12,230,188 | BDT 327 |
| February 2026 | 10,098 kg | BDT 2,710,754 | BDT 268 |
| March 2026 | 8,161 kg | BDT 2,202,293 | BDT 270 |
| April 2026 | 36,895 kg | BDT 12,864,867 | BDT 349 |
| May 2026 | 18,320 kg | BDT 4,198,587 | BDT 229 |
Bonded imports. A further 2,091 kg worth BDT 1,595,574 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 3.5% 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 83 contains 45 tariff lines, averaging 68.65%. At 64.25%, 83030000 sits below that average by 4.4 percentage points. It is the 11th 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.