HS Code 90185000
Other Ophthalmic Instruments And Appliances
Worked example
On an assessable value of BDT 100,000, the total duty and taxes payable on 90185000 would be approximately BDT 27,500.00, because the Total Tax Incidence is 27.5% of the assessable value.
What these figures mean
Other Ophthalmic Instruments And Appliances is classified under HS code 90185000, which sits in heading 9018 (Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments) of chapter 90 (Optical, photographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments).
Under the Bangladesh Operative Tariff 2026-2027 this line attracts Customs Duty of 0%, 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 27.5%, 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 90185000 in 6 of 6 months, totalling 32,180 kg at an assessable value of BDT 623,232,228. That is an average of BDT 19,367 per kilogram — useful as a rough check on whether a declared value looks plausible. In May 2026 it was the 643rd largest of 4,066 tariff lines by assessable value.
| Month | Net weight | Assessable value | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 6,661 kg | BDT 101,538,268 | BDT 15,244 |
| January 2026 | 5,321 kg | BDT 83,106,827 | BDT 15,619 |
| February 2026 | 3,129 kg | BDT 195,383,769 | BDT 62,443 |
| March 2026 | 4,925 kg | BDT 124,006,820 | BDT 25,179 |
| April 2026 | 6,950 kg | BDT 62,693,338 | BDT 9,021 |
| May 2026 | 5,194 kg | BDT 56,503,206 | BDT 10,879 |
Import figures: NBR Import Statements (IM-4 commercial), 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 90 contains 184 tariff lines, averaging 32.72%. At 27.5%, 90185000 sits below that average by 5.22 percentage points. It is the 161st 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 33.58 points.
Within heading 9018 alone, rates run from 1% to 64.25% across 34 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.