HS Code 85311000
Electrical Burglar Or Fire Alarms And Similar Apparatus
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 85311000 would be approximately BDT 28,730.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 28.73% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Electrical Burglar Or Fire Alarms And Similar Apparatus is classified under HS code 85311000, which sits in heading 8531 (Signalling apparatus; electric sound or visual (e.g. bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), excluding those of heading no. 8512 or 8530) 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 85311000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 91,663 kg at an assessable value of BDT 564,129,858. That is an average of BDT 6,154 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 456th largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 13,011 kg | BDT 100,219,557 | BDT 7,703 |
| January 2026 | 52,067 kg | BDT 126,004,219 | BDT 2,420 |
| February 2026 | 7,518 kg | BDT 74,736,038 | BDT 9,941 |
| March 2026 | 6,709 kg | BDT 78,545,203 | BDT 11,707 |
| April 2026 | 6,539 kg | BDT 86,114,888 | BDT 13,169 |
| May 2026 | 5,819 kg | BDT 98,509,953 | BDT 16,929 |
Bonded imports. A further 117,171 kg worth BDT 284,539,954 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 33.5% 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%, 85311000 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 8531 alone, rates run from 28.73% to 39.75% across 4 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.