For the week of October 1 to 7, 2022, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MiPymes provides that fuels be marketed at the following prices:
- Premium gasoline will be sold at RD$293.60 per gallon, maintaining its price.
- Regular Gasoline RD$274.50 per gallon maintains its price.
- Regular Diesel RD$221.60 per gallon maintains its price.
- Optimum Diesel RD$241.10 per gallon maintains its price.
- Avtur RD$273.91 per gallon maintains its price.
- Kerosene RD$338.10 per gallon maintains its price.
- Fuel Oil #6 RD$192.11 per gallon maintains its price.
- Fuel Oil 1%S RD$211.77 per gallon maintains its price.
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) RD$147.60 per gallon maintains its price.
- Natural Gas RD$28.97 per m3 maintains its price.
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The average weekly exchange rate is RD$53.49 of Central Bank publications.
The Vice Minister of Domestic Trade, Ramon Perez Fermin reported this Friday that the government of the president, Luis Abinader, has arranged to maintain the extraordinary subsidy with more than RD $100 million to contain the instability of the international market and avoid increases in the country.
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The deputy minister explained that as of Wednesday, the international price of WTI averaged US$79.92, with a decrease of 5.6% compared to the previous week, and an accumulated increase that is already around 11%.
“The volatility of the global scenario inspires anything but stability, pushed by a latent economic recession throughout the world, by the war of Ukraine that it has already served 7 months of hostility and that everything seems to indicate that it will continue for several more months, “said Pérez Fermín.
He affirmed that the government again assumes a sacrifice of more than 101 million pesos, to prevent fuel from increasing pricefrom 6 pesos per gallon, up to the sum of 54 pesos per gallon in the case of Regular Diesel.
