Entire list of imported products that will be more expensive after budget 2020

Feb 2, 2020, 22:23 IST

Customs duty on imported products has been raised by budget, in some cases, by more than three times. Image source: Flickr

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech specified only a few products like furniture and footwear where the basic customs duty has been increased.

However, a deeper study of the budget documents revealed a bunch of notifications where the customs duty on imported products have been raised, at times by more than three times.

These include items of daily use, albeit imported, like walnuts and kitchenware to fans and mobile phones to cigarettes and electric vehicles.

Here is the entire list of items where the customs duty has been raised:

Serial no	Category	Products	Current rate	Post budget rate
1	Household goods and appliances	Tableware and kitchenware of porcelain or china, ceramic, clay, iron, steel, copper and aluminium, glassware, padlocks, brooms, hand-sieves, combs, vacuum flasks, etc	10%	20%
2	Electrical Appliances	Fans, food grinders/mixers, shavers and hair removing appliances, water heaters, hair/hand drying apparatus, ovens, cookers, toasters, coffee/ tea makers, insect repellents, heaters, irons, etc	10%	20%
3	Footwear	Entire footwear	25%	35%
4	Footwear	Part of footwear	15%	20%
5	Furniture goods	Seats, articles of bedding including mattresses, lamps, lighting, illuminated signs, and other articles of furniture
6	Cellular Mobile Phones (with effect from 01.04.2020)	Vibrator/Ringer of Mobile phones NIL 10	20%	25%
7	Cellular Mobile Phones (with effect from 01.04.2020)	PCBA of Mobile phones	15%	20%
8	Cellular Mobile Phones (with effect from 01.04.2020)	Vibrator/Ringer of Mobile phones	20%	25%
9	Cellular Mobile Phones (with effect from 01.04.2020)	Display Panel and Touch Assembly	10%	20%
10	Electronics sector	Motors like Single Phase AC motors, Stepper motors, Wiper Motors etc	0	10%
11	Electronics sector	Fingerprint readers for use in cellular mobile phones	0	10%
12	Food processing	Walnuts, shelled	7.50%	10%
13	Chemicals and Plastics	Colloidal precious metals, inorganic or organic compounds of precious metal, amalgams of precious metals,	0	15%
14	Chemicals and Plastics	Butyl Acrylate	30%	100%
15	Chemicals and Plastics	Other prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; Chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries	10%	17.50%
16	Auto and auto parts	Catalytic converter	10%	15%
17	Auto and auto parts	Noble metal solutions and noble metal compounds used in manufacture of catalytic converter and its parts 5 10	5%	10%
18	Auto and auto parts	Parts and other specified inputs for manufacture of catalytic converters 5 7.5	5%	7.50%
19	Auto and auto parts	Completely Built Units (CBUs) of commercial vehicles (other than electric vehicles) (with effect from 01.04.2020) 30 40	30%	40%
20	Electric Vehicles (with effect from 1.04.20)	CBUs of Bus and Trucks	25%	40%
21	Electric Vehicles (with effect from 1.04.20)	Semi Knocked Down (SKD) units of bus, trucks and 2-W	15%	25%
22	Electric Vehicles (with effect from 1.04.20)	SKD units of PV and 3-W	15%	30%
23	Electric Vehicles (with effect from 1.04.20)	Completely Knocked Down (CKD) units of PV, 3-W, 2-W, bus and trucks	10%	15%
24	Cigarettes and tobacco products	National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD) on cigarettes, depending upon length of cigarette and on filter/non-filter basis	Ranging from ₹200-₹735 per thousand	Ranging from ₹200-₹735 per thousand
25	Cigarettes and tobacco products	NCCD increased on smoking mixtures for pipes and cigarettes	45%	60%
26	Cigarettes and tobacco products	NCCD increased on other forms of smoking tobacco (other than smoking mixtures for pipes and cigarettes) and forms of chewing tobacco	10%	25%