HS Code 85308000
Electrical Signalling... Equipment For Roads, Inland Waterways...
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 85308000 would be approximately BDT 28,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 28.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Electrical Signalling... Equipment For Roads, Inland Waterways... is classified under HS code 85308000, which sits in heading 8530 (Signalling, safety or traffic control equipment; for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations, airfields, excluding those of heading no. 8608) 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 85308000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 20,330 kg at an assessable value of BDT 49,013,244. That is an average of BDT 2,411 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 2,783rd largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 1,674 kg | BDT 1,621,119 | BDT 968 |
| January 2026 | 2,148 kg | BDT 7,198,855 | BDT 3,351 |
| February 2026 | 7,747 kg | BDT 13,823,694 | BDT 1,784 |
| March 2026 | 6,557 kg | BDT 25,380,297 | BDT 3,871 |
| April 2026 | 232 kg | BDT 281,070 | BDT 1,212 |
| May 2026 | 1,972 kg | BDT 708,209 | BDT 359 |
Bonded imports. A further 358 kg worth BDT 454,286 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 0.9% 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%, 85308000 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.
Within heading 8530 alone, rates run from 28.73% to 39.75% across 3 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.