The Centre has hiked basic customs duty on laboratory chemicals from 10% to 150%, eliciting alarm among scientists, The Hindu reported on Wednesday. The announcement was made in Budget documents made ...

Three digits have thrown scientists across the country into a tizzy. Budget documents, made public earlier this week, show that the Basic Customs Duty on laboratory chemicals, a critical component of ...

India's heightened customs duty on lab chemicals, from 10% to 150%, has disrupted research budgets nationwide. With research labs relying on standardized chemicals from certified suppliers, the new ...

TOI, on July 31, had reported that customs duty on close to 40,000 items had swelled from 10 per cent to 150 per cent. Late on Wednesday, finance ministry said that all chemicals, barring undenatured ...

The Finance Ministry on Wednesday offered relief for researchers and academicians by carving out a new section for the use of lab chemicals for R&D purposes. The ministry also reduced customs duty on ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman hiked customs duty on laboratory chemicals from 10% to 150% in the Union Budget 2024. Owing to this, university research centres are seeing cancelled work orders.

Imported chemicals, reagents, and enzymes come under the category of laboratory chemicals and are vital to experimental research across nearly every domain of scientific research. They comprise ...

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