Budget 2023: Clothes get costlier, mobile phones cheaper; here's the complete list of products

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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, in her Budget 2023 speech, addressed a range of economic issues confronting the country and announced several measures aimed at boosting the economy.

The finance minister made several announcements in the Budget 2023 in her more than hour-long speech.

Mobile phones and TV sets manufactured in India would become cheaper with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing cuts in Basic Customs Duty (BCD) on import of their components but smokers would have to pay more as the government has increased taxes.

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Fully imported cars, including electric vehicles, and those assembled in India with imported parts will also become costlier with the finance minister increasing customs duty.

Following is a list of imported items that will become costlier:

• Cigarettes
• Kitchen chimney
• Imported bicycles and toys
• Fully imported cars and Electric Vehicles
• Imitation jewellery
• Compounded rubber
• Silver dores
• Naphtha
• Clothes

However, certain goods will become cheaper as the government has slashed the customs duty and these are:

• Domestically-manufactured TV sets
• Shrimp feed
• Fish lipid oil used in manufacturing aquatic feed
• Seeds for lab-grown diamonds
• Capital good
• Machinery for manufacturing lithium ion cell to be used in electric vehicles.
• Mobile phones
• Chargers
• Camera lenses
• Acid-Base Fluorspar
• Parts of open cells of TV Panels
• Denatured ethyl alcohol
• Seeds used in the manufacturing of diamonds
• Crude glycerin

The Budget 2023 is significant since the country is all set to go for general elections in April or May 2024. The introduction of the Economic Survey for 2022-2023 marked the beginning of the Parliament's budget session on Tuesday. On October 10, the formal process to create the annual Budget for the following fiscal year (2023-24) got under way.

According to the Economic Survey, India's economy has fully recovered from the COVID pandemic, and growth is anticipated. (With inputs from agencies)