HS Code 85151100
Soldering Irons And Guns
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 85151100 would be approximately BDT 28,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 28.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Soldering Irons And Guns is classified under HS code 85151100, which sits in heading 8515 (Electric (electrically heated gas) soldering, brazing, welding machines and apparatus, capable or not of cutting, electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered carbides) of chapter 85 (Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound and television recorders and reproducers).
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 85151100 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 82,415 kg at an assessable value of BDT 43,822,770. That is an average of BDT 532 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 1,893rd largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 10,392 kg | BDT 4,721,191 | BDT 454 |
| January 2026 | 14,044 kg | BDT 6,041,229 | BDT 430 |
| February 2026 | 12,735 kg | BDT 4,522,104 | BDT 355 |
| March 2026 | 16,768 kg | BDT 21,241,610 | BDT 1,267 |
| April 2026 | 9,987 kg | BDT 1,854,852 | BDT 186 |
| May 2026 | 18,489 kg | BDT 5,441,784 | BDT 294 |
Bonded imports. A further 531 kg worth BDT 527,526 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 1.2% 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 85 contains 412 tariff lines, averaging 52.09%. At 28.73%, 85151100 sits below that average by 23.36 percentage points. It is the 338th 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.