The Ministry of Domestic Trade ordered the companies that are members of the Argentine Meat Exporters Consortium (ABC) to maintain “adequate compliance with the supply” of the Care Cuts plan.
The injunction occurred after the business entity announced to various supermarket chains an “imminent cessation” in the provision of the cuts that make up the program.
In a note signed by the Secretary of Commerce, Roberto Feletti, addressed to the president of ABC, Mario Ravettino, the official agency described the decision as “unilateral, untimely and unreasonable” and that “implies incurring in the conduct provided for in article 4 of the Supply Law, entailing a serious impact on the normal supply of the aforementioned cuts of meat in outlets for mass minority consumption”.
That is why they were instructed to “maintain adequate compliance with the supply of cuts of meat referred to the prices duly established under penalty of applying the pertinent measures contemplated in said regulatory body.”
In the note, Comercio Interior also set a deadline of 48 hours for the slaughterhouses to submit a report on “the sales of the cuts of the Care Cuts program made by their associates to all the members involved in the program during the month of February.”
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In February, the National Government renewed the agreement with the exporting refrigerators and the large supermarket chains the commercialization of 6,000 monthly tons of seven cuts of beef throughout the countryat prices below market prices.
Said plan was established until the end of the year, with revisions throughout this period, the next of which would take place in April.
To date, the agreed prices were $699 for the roast strip; $749 empty; slaughter at $779; $449 skirt; roast lid at $639; buttock at $799; and palette at $649.
