HS Code 84371000
Machines For Cleaning/Sorting/Grading Seed, Grain Or Dried Vegetables
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 84371000 would be approximately BDT 25,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 25.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Machines For Cleaning/Sorting/Grading Seed, Grain Or Dried Vegetables is classified under HS code 84371000, which sits in heading 8437 (Machines for cleaning, sorting, grading seed, grain, dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, not farm type machinery) of chapter 84 (Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 1%, Supplementary Duty of 0%, VAT of 15%, Advance Income Tax of 2%, Regulatory Duty of 0% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 25.73%, 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 84371000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 1,452,110 kg at an assessable value of BDT 1,139,494,866. That is an average of BDT 785 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 515th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 198,190 kg | BDT 162,620,267 | BDT 821 |
| January 2026 | 361,855 kg | BDT 264,195,123 | BDT 730 |
| February 2026 | 220,259 kg | BDT 215,577,654 | BDT 979 |
| March 2026 | 403,376 kg | BDT 295,889,282 | BDT 734 |
| April 2026 | 169,131 kg | BDT 118,271,309 | BDT 699 |
| May 2026 | 99,299 kg | BDT 82,941,231 | BDT 835 |
Import figures: NBR Import Statements (IM-4 commercial), 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 84 contains 648 tariff lines, averaging 35.59%. At 25.73%, 84371000 sits below that average by 9.86 percentage points. It is the 586th 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 35.35 points.
Within heading 8437 alone, rates run from 25.73% to 45.88% across 5 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.