Union Budget 2020: Here’s what gets cheaper & what costlier

Bhubaneswar: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today presented the final Budget for 2020 in the Parliament.  This was her second Budget presentation after the demise of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Here’s the list of what gets cheaper & what is costlier

Costlier

• Medical equipment
• Footwear
• Furniture, lamps and lighting fittings
• Cigarettes, Hookah, tobacco products
• Tableware/kitchenware made of porcelain or China ceramic, water filters, glassware
• Clay iron
• Steel
• Copper
• Catalytic converters
• Parts of commercial vehicles, other than EVs
• Wall fan
• Butter ghee, butter oil, edible oils, peanut butter
• Whey, meslin, maize, sugar beet seeds, preserved potato
• Chewing gum, dietary soya fibre, isolated soya protein
• Walnuts (shelled)
• Skimmed milk
• Soya fibre
• Soya protein
• Agro-animal based products
• Certain alcoholic beverages
• Raw sugar
• shavers, hair clippers, hair-removing appliances
• Rubies, emeralds, sapphires, rough coloured gemstones
• Padlocks
• Hand sieves and hand riddles
• Combs, hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair curlers
• Portable blowers
• Water heaters and immersion heaters
• Hair dryers, hand drying apparatus and electric irons
• Food grinders, ovens, cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters
• Coffee and tea makers and toasters
• Electro-thermic fluid heaters, devices for repelling insects and electric heating resistors
• Toys, stationery item, artificial flowers, bells, gongs, statuettes, trophies
• Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) of cellular mobile phones, display panel and touch assembly, fingerprint readers for use in cellular mobile phones

Cheaper

• Customs duty on import of newsprint, lightweight coated paper to 5 per cent
• Purified terephthalic acid (PTA).
• Sports goods
• Microphone
• Electric vehicles