There is a 7.6% average drop in prices since the implementation of + Care Prices

There is a 7.6% average drop in prices since the implementation of + Care Prices

In this regard, he specified, “The analysis showed that during the first 19 days of October the prices surveyed experienced an increase of 2.1%, while as of Wednesday the 20th they showed a fall of 7.6%”.

This statistic is prepared based on the information that supermarkets throughout the country send daily to the Ministry of Internal Commerce under the form of an affidavit through the Argentine Price Advertising Price System (SEPA), the statement revealed.

The Government extended the program of Care Prices for 90 days and with retroactive effect to October 1 to maintain the values ​​of a basket composed of 1,432 mass consumer products.

The measure will be in force until next January 7 and orders the fixing of the prices for producers, marketers and distributors throughout the national territory.

Resolution 1050/2021 of the Ministry of Internal Trade highlighted that “generalized increases were verified” that “are unreasonable and do not correspond to recent variations in production cost structures.”

Likewise, it required “the companies that are an integral part of the production, distribution and commercialization chain of the products included (in the list) to increase their production to the maximum of their installed capacity, and to arbitrate the conducive measures to ensure their transportation. and provision during the period of validity of this measure “.

The decision to extend the program generated rejection and support in the business sector, the same positions that are observed in the political sphere between the ruling party and the opposition.

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