According to the numbers collected by the official agency, the basket set by Internal Commerce through Resolution 1050/2021, which brought the values back to October 1 and froze them until next January 7, has been 90% fulfilled in what with respect to prices and 80% in terms of supply in the large chains of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and the interior of the country. There was a case, that of the wholesaler Maxiconsumo, where there was a 74% compliance in prices.
In the case of the interior of the country, andhe compliance of regional chains is at 75% on average for prices and supply. Likewise, the supply of sunflower oil registered 55% compliance, which led Commerce Interior to convene the oil companies to analyze the situation.
In the meeting held last week, the issue of the trust of the sector that expires on January 31 was also addressed
In this sense, the oil companies agreed to increase the trust by US $ 28 million, which is currently US $ 190 million and is running out, which would increase to US $ 218 million.
The trust is a tool through which the Government sought to decouple the international prices of commodities from the values paid by the consumer, and implies that exporters subsidize producers by granting them compensation for the difference between the export price and the of the domestic market.
Although at this point they reached an agreement, regarding the lack of sunflower oil in the shelves, there was no clarity on the part of the business sector regarding what is happening.
The oil companies assure that they are complying with production and supply and that they do not know if the product remains in the wholesale distributors or is kept in the supermarkets, official sources said.
Faced with this situation, Commerce Interior sent today to the Chamber of the Oil Industry (Ciara) the results of a survey of 200 points of sale where a lack of oil was registered so that the producers agree to follow the route of the delivery of products . Thus, distributors and supermarkets will be investigated to see why the supply of sunflower oil is well below the average, being a widespread consumption.
On the other hand, Comercio Interior also began to work on the basket of fresh products, as it did with the dry ones, with the aim of rebuilding the internal consumption of meat at affordable prices.
The idea is to standardize a scheme to monitor that protein consumption does not fall below 115 kilos per year of meat per inhabitant, of which 55 would be beef; 40 chicken; 10 pork; and 5 fish.
“Today there is less regulation than in 2015 with higher international prices. The retentions are lower and there are no quotas”, described from the area that leads Roberto Feletti, to graph the current situation of the sector. Thus, the basket of fresh products will seek to ensure a minimum supply.
The Ministry of Internal Trade will advance in its assembly and will present it to the Ministries of Agriculture, Productive Development and Economy in the short term.
Within the framework of the potential initiatives that are under analysis, in Domestic Trade they estimate that setting the ratio of exports to beef slaughter at 20%, together with withholdings of 15% on exports, could stabilize a supply 55 kilos per year per inhabitant.
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There may even be a process in which the withholdings can first be taken from the current 9% to 12% and ensure 52 kilos per year per inhabitant, and then advance in the other section to 15%. According to the calculations, the increase in export withholdings would leave revenues of US $ 42 million more per year.
Regarding this, the spokesperson for the Presidency of the Nation, Gabriela Cerruti, told El Uncover Radio that the agreement on meat is “being discussed” by the Ministers of Economy, Martín Guzmán, and Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, together with Feletti.
“There are a number of possibilities on the table,” but “the decision has not yet been made on the extent to which an agreement can be reached or not,” Cerruti said.
“This government always prefers to reach a consensus first, but there are times when this is impossible and other types of measures must be taken,” said the spokeswoman, who announced that the resolution “will be known in these days.”
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