According to the DEUCO (Defense of Users and Consumers) survey, the basket of beef, chicken and fish exceeded $33,000 last December.
A survey of DEUCO (Defense of Users and Consumers) pointed out that the meat basket raised more than $10,000 for the New Year’s Eve Holidays and exceeded $33,000 Last December
The meat basket, which INDEC includes in its monthly measurements, is made up of five cuts of beef, chicken and hake fillet.
If the inter-monthly variation is taken into account, the increase compared to the month of November 2023 was 45.7%, when the basket had become more expensive by $22,657.33.
Meanwhile, taking into account the cost recorded in December 2022 – which was $7,612.66 – and that of December 2023, in which the Meat Basket had a value of $33,015the year-on-year increase was 333.71%.
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Meats: the sector warns of more increases
He president of the Association of Butcher Shop Owners of the City of Buenos Aires, Alberto Williamswarned that the kilo of meat could reach $20,000 after opening for export of all popular cuts.
As the Government announced last week, since yesterday the refrigeration industry can export the so-called “preferred cuts fresh, chilled or frozen” which were prohibited from being shipped abroad by Decree 911/2021, which prohibited shipments of barbecue cuts.
In this framework, the owner of the association was negative about the outlook in the meat prices for the coming months: “The increase has been very important. The butcher shops are empty. In fact the end of the year was a disaster because there were no sales and the price of meat is not in accordance with the purchasing power of the people who consumes it.” In this frame, Williams pointed out that a kilo of meat would be “above $20,000”.
The figure mentioned by Williams arises from the price that a kilo of beef should have in the domestic market if it is put in line with the international price.
Source: Ambito
