Presenting the Budget for 2006-07, Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed to reduce customs duty on 10 anti-AIDS and 14 anti-cancer drugs to five per cent.
He also proposed to reduce the duty on certain life-saving drugs, kits and equipment from 15 per cent to five per cent.
These drugs will also be exempt from excise duty and countervailing duty, the minister said.
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