Prices up, prices down

Economic Correspondent: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday placed the proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal year in which changes to duties on different products can be seen.

For this, some products can see increase and decrease in their prices.

A proposal has been placed to impose duty ranging from 5 percent till 25 percent in importing a handful of products as per the proposed budget.

Products that can see their prices up:

Cosmetics, mobile phone services, ceramics, cigarettes, helicopter renting, plastic products, aluminium products, cooking oils, medicines, marriage media centres, ice cream, vehicle registration, route permit for vehicles, fitness certificate for vehicles, astrology, drama, movie, handmade confectioneries, milk, sugar, body spray, ovens, broilers, grillers and smart phones.

Products that can see their prices down:

Lightening arresters, firefighting equipment, building bricks, cancer-related medicines, coco substrate and coco pellet used in home gardening, gold and electric fan.


risingbd/Dhaka/June 13, 2019/MA Rahman/AI