The government defined the values of fuels for next month, generally aligned with what is indicated in the Import Parity Prices report.
He Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) published the split decision of the Executive power regarding the prices of the fuels in Uruguay During May: gasoline will rise by 2% while diesel will decrease its value by 1.8%. In April, fuels had remained frozen, the same thing that will happen with supergas starting Wednesday.
The statement states that the Super 95 gasoline will have a maximum retail price of 78.04 pesos (currently it is available at 76.54 pesos), a smaller increase than that marked by the evolution of the Import Parity Price (PPI) In the last month, 3.4% and 2.6 pesos per liter at the pump. He 50S diesel, Meanwhile, it will drop 0.97 pesos per liter, and will go from 54.89 pesos to 53.92 pesos.
In the case of supergas, The public price will continue at 80.75 pesos per kilo, below the import parity. Meanwhile, for the 200,000 households that receive the 50% subsidy on the price of the bottle, the 13 kilogram refill continues at $525.
According to the MIEM, the decision “ratifies the current management’s policy of reflecting the evolution of prices in the international marketmitigating the increases when possible and transferring the decreases to the consumer and the productive sector.”
– News in development.
Source: Ambito
