Phones, sweets, cigarettes, microwaves: What’s cheaper, what’s costlier

While placing the proposed national budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year today, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed changes to duties on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.

Items that are now cheaper

• Sweets
• Raw materials for cancer medicines
• Homemade biscuits
• Cake
• Airplane engine
• Turbo engine
• Agriculture equipment
• Sanitary napkin
• Diaper
• Malaria and TB medicines
• Silicon tube
• Optical fibre cables
• Hot rolled steel
• Cold rolled steel

Items that are now costlier

• Imported nuts
• Imported coffee
• Bicycle parts
• Dates
• Imported software
• GI fittings
• Cylinder of high-end electric vehicle
• E-cigarette
• Imported motorcycle
• Escalator
• Imported electric light fittings
• Nicotine or nicotine substitutes
• Imported microwave ovens
• Lifts
• Gold bars
• Tobacco products
• Adhesive/glue
• Cement
• Ball point pen
• Software
• Polypropylene film
• LPG cylinder
• Mobile phone
• Plastic household products
• Tissue paper
• Aluminium Utensils
• Microwave oven
• Refrigerator
• Washing machine
• Electric oven
• Juicer
• Blender
• Rice cooker
• Pressure cooker
• Printer
• Scanner
• Router
• Earphones
• Pen drive
• SSD card
• CCTV monitor
• Projector
• Digital watch
• Electric Panel
• Processed foods
• Basmati rice
• Sunglasses
• Glass
• Facewash
• Titanium Dioxide