HS Code 84483100
Card Clothing
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 84483100 would be approximately BDT 28,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 28.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Card Clothing is classified under HS code 84483100, which sits in heading 8448 (Machinery, auxiliary; for use with machines of heading no. 8444 to 8447 (e.g. dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms) parts, accessories for machines of heading no. 8444, 8447) 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 5%, Regulatory Duty of 0% and Advance Tax of 7.5%. Combined, these produce a Total Tax Incidence of 28.73%, 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 84483100 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 253,829 kg at an assessable value of BDT 539,248,983. That is an average of BDT 2,124 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 547th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 29,943 kg | BDT 86,710,555 | BDT 2,896 |
| January 2026 | 53,544 kg | BDT 151,293,661 | BDT 2,826 |
| February 2026 | 24,414 kg | BDT 68,516,812 | BDT 2,806 |
| March 2026 | 41,317 kg | BDT 48,711,063 | BDT 1,179 |
| April 2026 | 51,436 kg | BDT 110,892,138 | BDT 2,156 |
| May 2026 | 53,175 kg | BDT 73,124,754 | BDT 1,375 |
Bonded imports. A further 9,625 kg worth BDT 5,283,880 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 1.0% 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 84 contains 648 tariff lines, averaging 35.59%. At 28.73%, 84483100 sits below that average by 6.86 percentage points. It is the 166th 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 32.35 points.
Within heading 8448 alone, rates run from 28.73% to 45.88% across 13 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.