How Bangladesh’s concessionary import duty on agricultural machinery works: the SRO basis, the HS headings for tillers, harvesters and transplanters, the recommendation letters that condition the relief, and the mixed-consignment trap.
Monthly Archives: September 2026
Sight versus usance letters of credit for Bangladeshi importers: how each payment cycle works, who bears the cost of deferral, UPAS, and how to match the tenor to your cash conversion cycle.
How back-to-back letters of credit let export-oriented Bangladeshi garment factories import fabric and trims from China on deferred terms and duty-free under a bonded warehouse licence.
Presses, die-cutters, laminators and form-fill-seal lines are heavy, oversized and full of parts that hate a rough voyage. Crating, container choice, loading supervision, customs classification and the last-50-metres problem — what to get right.
A refrigerated container has no power of its own — it must be plugged in at every stage, and the road leg needs a diesel genset. Where the power comes from from China cold store to Dhaka warehouse, and the failure points to design out.
Table potato needs to stay dormant without sweetening; seed potato needs to stay dormant and then be woken on schedule. Why the holding temperatures differ, why sprout suppressant is banned on seed, and how to plan a store that handles both.
Slow-moving, obsolete and dead stock are three different problems with three different fixes. How to flag them in your stock report, the ladder of ways to recover cash, and the difference between a write-down and a write-off.
A bin location code turns “somewhere near the back” into an exact address on every shelf. How to structure the code, why serpentine aisle numbering cuts walking, fixed versus random slotting, and a rollout that does not stop work.
A wrong quantity, HS code or freight figure on a filed declaration is fixable — but your options shrink as it moves from stored to registered to released. The amendment process in ASYCUDA World, the changes Customs scrutinises, and how to file right the first time.
Bangladesh scrapped mandatory pre-shipment inspection and moved to WTO transaction-value assessment through self-declaration in ASYCUDA World. What changed, why the customs reference-value database still matters, and what it means for a China importer today.










