NEW DELHI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday presented her maiden budget in the first year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term.
Here’s a list of items that are set to get more expensive and cheaper once the budget comes into effect.
| Product | Cheaper/Costlier |
| Alarm Clocks | Costlier |
| Ball screws | Cheaper |
| Beauty, Makeup products | Costlier |
| Bidi | Costlier |
| Bricks, tiles | Cheaper |
| Candles | Costlier |
| Cars | Costlier |
| Cashew | Cheaper |
| Cell phone parts | Costlier |
| Chromite | Cheaper |
| Cigarette | Costlier |
| Cigarette lighter | Costlier |
| CNG machine tools | Cheaper |
| Coconut oil | Costlier |
| Cranberry juice | Costlier |
| Cut, polished coloured gemstones | Costlier |
| Dental hygiene products | Costlier |
| Diamonds | Costlier |
| Diesel | Costlier |
| Fishing rods, hooks | Costlier |
| Footwear | Costlier |
| Furniture | Costlier |
| Gold | Costlier |
| Ground nut oil | Costlier |
| Imitation jewellery | Costlier |
| Kites | Costlier |
| Lamps, lighting fitting, illuminated signs | Costlier |
| LCD/LED/OLED | Costlier |
| Manicure, pedicure preparations | Costlier |
| Mattress, bedding | Costlier |
| Medical care | Cheaper |
| Mobile | Costlier |
| Motor vehicle accessories | Costlier |
| Motorcycles | Costlier |
| Olive oil | Costlier |
| Orange juice | Costlier |
| Pan Masala | Costlier |
| Perfume | Costlier |
| Petrol | Costlier |
| Pocket watches | Costlier |
| Refined vegetable oil(edible) | Costlier |
| Saffola oil | Costlier |
| Shaving products | Costlier |
| Silk fabrics | Costlier |
| Silver | Costlier |
| Smart watches/wearable deivces | Costlier |
| Solar tempered glass | Cheaper |
| Sports equipment | Costlier |
| Stop watches | Costlier |
| Sunglasses | Costlier |
| Sunscreen, suntan | Costlier |
| Toilet waters | Costlier |
| Toothpaste | Costlier |
| Toys | Costlier |
| Truck, bus radial tyres | Costlier |
| TV sets | Costlier |
| Vegetable juices | Costlier |
| Video games | Costlier |
| Wrist watches | Costlier |
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