HS Code 84688000
Machinery And Apparatus For Soldering, Brazing Or Welding, Nes
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 84688000 would be approximately BDT 28,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 28.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Machinery And Apparatus For Soldering, Brazing Or Welding, Nes is classified under HS code 84688000, which sits in heading 8468 (Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing, welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading no. 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances) 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 84688000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 200,241 kg at an assessable value of BDT 197,115,689. That is an average of BDT 984 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 896th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 30,926 kg | BDT 22,170,283 | BDT 717 |
| January 2026 | 58,617 kg | BDT 49,761,225 | BDT 849 |
| February 2026 | 50,072 kg | BDT 52,369,975 | BDT 1,046 |
| March 2026 | 14,337 kg | BDT 31,437,804 | BDT 2,193 |
| April 2026 | 11,829 kg | BDT 9,310,324 | BDT 787 |
| May 2026 | 34,460 kg | BDT 32,066,078 | BDT 931 |
Bonded imports. A further 1,119 kg worth BDT 789,256 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 0.4% 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%, 84688000 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.
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.