Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces exemption of custom duties on critical minerals
Villagers show lithium stones in Reasi district of Jammu (file photo) | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 announced to fully exempt 25 critical minerals from custom duties, and reduce basic custom duties (BCD) on two of them. “This will provide a major fillip to the processing and refining of such minerals…