Dhaka: Foreign-made mobile phone handsets will be costlier as import duty has been proposed to hike to 10 percent from existing 5 percent.

Finance minister A M A Muhith today proposed the duty hike while placing the national budget for fiscal 2017-18 in the parliament.

At the same time he also proposed to cut some taxes on importing different equipments for boosting assembling mobile handsets, laptops and tablet computers in the country.