After a meeting with the cargo and passenger transporters in the Casa de Nariño, the Government decided that cwould freeze the price of ACPM until June 2023.
This was announced by the Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, after the meeting on October 5 between members of the union and President Gustavo Petro.
(Read: Increase in gasoline would reduce the deficit by $600,000 million).
“ANDhe president affirmed that, in terms of ACPM, which is the fundamental fuel for cargo transport, until June of next year there will be no increases”, they assured.
Now, regarding the price of gasoline, the minister pointed out that everything will depend on the external factors that keep defining your volatility.
It should be remembered that since October 2022 the Government established an increase of 200 pesos per month for the gallon of gasoline. Measure that would last, for now, until the end of the year.
The Government always maintained that for a time it would not touch diesel prices so as not to affect the value of food and strongly impact inflation.
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“We were worried because the prices were still until December, so we asked him what would happen on the first of January and that was when he told us that after consulting with his team the price freeze could be until June 2023.″, assured Héctor Alfonso Medrano, a member of the transporters union.
(See: Fuels, the product that Colombia exported the most from January to August).
The debate about increases in gasoline prices continues to be circumstantial. The Government has proposed increases for the deficit that exists in the Fuel Price Stabilization Funds that at the end of the year it would accumulate 38 billion pesos.
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