After the weekend announcements, The AFIP conducted this Monday a mega control operation in the Central Market, monitor prices and check for any findings. “Traceability of imported and locally produced food with price distortions is under control,” the agency said, noting: “There is no justification for them to score blue.”
After the run of the last two weeks of April, when the price of the blue dollar reached $497, prices in the economy reflected this increase and last month’s inflation ended at 8.4%.
In response to this and in light of the first measurements of the month, which already show that inflation in May will be higher than this number, Sergio Massa has accelerated a package of measures this weekenda, including the creation of a “super agency” to detect “abusive” price increases. It will centralize online information from Customs, AFIP, Trade and BCRA, among others.
Despite the announcement, the measure has not yet been made official this Monday in the Official Gazette. In Economics they had also advanced that the Central Market will add to its business the role of direct importer of foodstuffs. It will do it at zero fee. There will be more controls in the operations.
Approval of SIRA permits for the import of capital goods with SIRA will be accelerated to 360 days. In this way, the Central Market will be able to import food directly to reduce the actual selling price of fresh products to the public, and the Superintendency of Insurance, the CNV and the FIU will join the checks.
This indicates an ordering of thes “price makers” and on the fiscal situation of the Central Market. The importation of products from a zero tariff basket will be enabled, which seeks to avoid “abuse” in the prices of fresh products and will favor a drop in prices with the suspension of the payment of the fee to street vendors for 90 days.
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Source: Clarin
