However, Feletti clarified that this rise does not have to affect prices in the economy or the recent freezes that were decreed.
The official said that the only thing that could modify this situation is that the business sector cannot import at the wholesale exchange rate, something that at the moment is not happening or will not happen, as he assured. “It is an illegal market, although we call it sympathetically blue,” he said.
The statements of the successor of Paula Español in the secretariat that depends on the Ministry of Productive Development were framed in the formal presentation of the agreement with the laboratories to freeze the prices of a basket of approximately 500 medicines until January 7.
Unlike the previous freeze of 1,432 mass consumer products, which was rejected by several companies in the food industry, this time the consensus with the private sector was greater.
Feletti explained that what is intended is “to recover living standards and that this is not frustrated by prices of essential consumption”, such as food and medicine, so that “the consumption margin for the rest of the goods is much higher.” In this context, he thanked the cameras for “the willingness to accept the idea of rolling back prices and stabilizing them.”
The president of the Industrial Chamber of Argentine Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Cilfa), Eduardo Macchiavello, said that “we are willing to help and we hope that our efforts will help to stabilize prices.” In addition, he affirmed that the last two years “were not easy for the industry.”
On behalf of the State, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, also participated in the conference. From the private sector, in addition to Macchiavello, there were Alejandrina Arauz, from the Argentine Chamber of Producers of Generic Medicines and Hospital Use (Capgen); Carlos Escobar, from the Argentine Chamber of Medicinal Specialties (Caeme); Marcelo Burstein, from the Business Chamber of Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Cooperala).
Source From: Ambito
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