About HSNote
Bangladesh's most complete HS code & customs tariff reference — bilingual, searchable, and free to start.
What is HSNote?
HSNote is an online reference platform covering 7,317 Bangladesh HS codes from the Bangladesh Customs Tariff 2024-25, with all six duty rates (Customs Duty, Regulatory Duty, Supplementary Duty, VAT, Advance Income Tax, Advance Tax), WCO Explanatory Notes, import/export laws, and 21 trade calculation tools.
Content is available in both English and Bangla (বাংলা), making it the only platform offering bilingual coverage of the full BCT.
Who built it?
HSNote was built by a Bangladeshi developer with a background in trade compliance and software engineering. The goal: make Bangladesh customs information accessible to everyone — importers, exporters, customs officers, students, and researchers — without needing to dig through 800-page PDF tariff books.
Contact: farhadh.35@gmail.com
Data sources
Bangladesh Customs Tariff 2024-25
Published by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) as a Bangladesh Gazette notification. Contains all 7,317 HS codes with six duty rate columns. Public domain.
WCO Harmonized System Nomenclature 2022
Published by the World Customs Organization. Provides chapter, heading, and subheading explanatory notes. © WCO — displayed for educational reference.
WCO Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized System, 5th Edition (2015 baseline)
Detailed explanatory notes for each heading and subheading. © WCO.
Customs Act 1969, VAT & SD Act 2012, Export Policy 2021-24, Import Policy 2021-24
Acts of Parliament of Bangladesh. Public domain.
Important disclaimer
Technology
Frontend
Next.js 16 (App Router), Tailwind CSS 4
Database
PostgreSQL 16 + Drizzle ORM
Search
PostgreSQL full-text (Meilisearch — coming)
Hosting
Hostinger KVM VPS, Caddy reverse proxy
Auth
NextAuth v5 + bcrypt
Payments
SSLCommerz (BD), bKash (coming)
Translation
Bangla: Claude / Gemini API + human review
Source parsing
pdftotext + custom Python ETL pipeline