“On July 19, the Government signed a price agreement with the pharmaceutical sector for 60 days. It established a maximum increase for medicines of up to 1 percentage point below the CPI of the previous month (June and July). , in round numbers, between July and August, the increases could not exceed 11% accumulated,” he explained.
In this context, the Secretary maintained that in Commerce they detected that since the beginning of the month, and in advance of the publication of the CPI for July, “several laboratories increased the prices of medicines above the agreed threshold, thus failing to comply with what was signed with the president @alferdez“.
“For this reason, if this situation is not corrected in the next 48 hours, we are going to call the laboratories to review their import plans and see what they do with the Argentine dollars”warned the economist.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 7.4% monthly, and accumulated a rise of 46.2% in the first seven months of the year, reported Thursday the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
In the year-on-year comparison, retail inflation registered an increase of 71%, the agency added.
The rise of 7.4% exceeded the 6.7% that had been registered in March, and became the highest monthly record so far this year.
Source: Ambito
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