The retail price has a reference maximum of $1,118 for the 10-kilo bottle (before $1,016), $1,341 (before $1,219) for the 12-kilo bottle and $1,677 (before $1,524) for the 15-kilo bottle. .
For the fractioning segment, the maximum values are $606 (before $551) for a 10-kilo carafe, $728 (before $662) for the 12-kilo bottle and $910 (before $827) for the 15-kilo bottle, while for the dealer rise to $1,064 (was $968); $1,277 (before $1,161) and $1,597 (before $1,452) respectively.
In the recitals of the resolution it is indicated that “taking into account the variation experienced in the values associated with the production of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), as well as in the costs observed in the segments of fractioning, distribution and retail trade, it is necessary to update the maximum reference prices”.
The adjustment is made “providing that the price to the final consumer results from the real economic costs of the activity in the different stages, so that the provision of the service is carried out with the proper conditions of quality and safety, always maintaining the protection of vulnerable users to through the Home Program”, added the Ministry of Energy.
The Home Program was created in 2015 and provides for a scheme of maximum reference prices and compensations to be applied to the volumes of product, butane and propane, whose exclusive destination is the consumption in the domestic market of LPG bottled in bottles of 10, 12 and 15 kilos for domestic use.
Source: Ambito
