Excise duty on all man-made fibre yarn and filament yarn is reduced to 8% from 16%.
Excise Duty on aerated drinks and small cars is reduced to 16%.
There are such products like software, software packages downloaded from internet, computer drives which are fully exempted from excise duty except 8% of excise duty on packaged software sold over the counter.
Excise duty on fast food items to has been reduced to 8% from 16% while condensed milk, ice cream, preparations of meat, fish and poultry, pectins, pasta and yeast are fully exempted.
Duty exempted on vegetable tanning such as quebracho and chestnut.
Excise duty on footwear with retail price between Rs. 250 to Rs. 750 is reduced to 8% from 16%.
Concessional rate of 8% to be extended for all LPG stoves.
Excise duty on compact fluorescent lamps is reduced to 8% from 16%.
Excise duty on cigarettes is increased by 5%.