The Secretary of Commerce, Matías Tombolini, affirmed that work will be done to generate alternatives so that producers have more direct access to marketing and “the prices are fairer”, with the aim that “the salary each day yields a little more”.
“What we have ahead of us in this initiative that the Nation and Province show us today working together is the concept of fair trade, it is to generate alternatives so that producers have much more direct access to marketing”said Tombolini when participating in the inauguration of Mercado Lomas, in the Buenos Aires municipality of Lomas de Zamora.
At the ceremony, the secretary said that in this way it will be possible “to make the distance between production and sale much shorter, and the prices received by producers are better and the prices paid by consumers are fairer.” .
He said that “as soon as we took office, Minister (Sergio) Massa and President Alberto Fernández gave me a single mission: to take care of the pockets of Argentine men and women,” and remarked: “We have to keep doing things that we need to do so that the salary pays off a little more every day.”
“I wish we had more mayors who dare to fight and present these alternatives to compete with those who have wanted to abuse prices in turbulent times,” he added.
He affirmed that “to avoid this, the President decided to join the administration of commerce and imports, we will also be able to manage them so we know how much those who sell in the gondola are paying”, because “we saw the abuses of those who imported at the official dollar and in the gondola they put the price they want, the parallel, speculating”.
“As soon as we took office, Minister (Sergio) Massa and President Alberto Fernández gave me a single mission: to take care of the pockets of Argentine men and women”Matias Tombolini
“We are not going to persecute them, they are going to come and sit alone because we are going to touch the fiber that hurts them the most, which is their pockets; we are going to generate the alternatives we need so that prices are fair prices,” he said. the Secretary.
In this context, he also called on the mayors to “Get together to be able to go to verify that the price agreements are fulfilled, that they do not speculate with Argentine silver, to be able to verify that the Argentine dollars are used to generate good prices, that nobody takes advantage.”
He noted that “the bag of bread in Argentina has a subsidy from a trust that comes from a two-point withholding on soybean oil and soybean flour, and today I asked the colleague who was making the bread and is paying 2,200 ( pesos) a bag of bread when it has to cost 1,800”.
“We have to keep adding mills, we have to keep transferring wealth, we have to keep reorienting Argentina’s income, we have to keep doing things that we need to do so that the salary pays a little more each day,” concluded Tombolini.
