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Union Budget 2025: What’s Cheaper and What’s Costlier? A Complete List

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Due to customs duty adjustments announced by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2025, several products have seen price changes. Read more... Items such as mobile phones, EV batteries, and essential medicines are now more affordable, whereas flat panel displays and knitted fabrics have become more expensive to support domestic industries.Read less


Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2025-26, with a focus on accelerating economic growth, ensuring inclusive development, invigorating industries, and uplifting household sentiment. The budget highlights adjustments in customs duties, making several essential goods more affordable while increasing costs on specific items.

Key customs duty reductions include exemptions on 28 additional mobile phone battery production goods, 36 lifesaving drugs, and 12 critical minerals. Other reductions apply to EV batteries, open cells for LCD/LED TVs, frozen fish paste, and raw materials for shipbuilding. Conversely, the budget increases customs duties on flat panel displays and knitted fabrics to support domestic manufacturing.

Union Budget 2025 Highlight

The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Union Budget 2025 on February 1, 2025, announcing various reforms to indirect tax. The government aims to further simplify and rationalize the GST tax structure. Thus, significant changes were introduced in GST, making certain goods cheaper and others costlier. Here’s a complete list of all the goods that became costlier and cheaper.

Items That Have Become Cheaper

The Union Budget 2025 introduced customs duty reductions and exemptions on various items to boost affordability and encourage local manufacturing. Some of the major items that will now cost less include:

  • Mobile phones: Customs duty exemptions were extended to 28 additional goods used in mobile phone battery production.

  • Lifesaving drugs: 36 new lifesaving medicines and drugs fully exempted from Basic Customs Duty.

  • EV batteries: Reduction in customs duty to promote electric mobility.

  • Frozen Fish Paste (Surimi): Reduced customs duty from 30% to 5% to support manufacturing and export of its analogue products.

  • Wet Blue leather: Lower duty to support the leather industry.

  • Carrier-grade ethernet switches: Reduction to boost telecom infrastructure.

  • Critical minerals: 12 essential minerals, including lithium and cobalt, will see a reduction in customs duty.

  • Open Cells for LCD/LED TVs: Basic Customs Duty exemption extended to support TV panel manufacturing.

  • Raw materials for ship manufacturing: Exemption extended for another 10 years.

  • Marine products: Reduction to boost exports.

  • Cobalt products: Lowered duty to support the battery and electronics industry.

  • LED products: Reduction to encourage energy-efficient lighting.

  • Scrap of lithium-ion battery, lead, zinc, and 12 other critical minerals: Customs duty exemption to aid battery recycling and renewable energy sectors.

Items That Have Become Costlier

While several essential goods are now more affordable, the government has increased customs duties on select products to protect domestic industries and regulate imports. The following items will now be more expensive:

  • Flat panel displays: Increased duty to support domestic production of display panels.

  • Knitted fabrics: Higher duties imposed to boost local textile manufacturing.

Source: Budget 2025: What gets cheaper, what gets expensive? Check full list - The Economic Times

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