The Secretary of Internal Commerce, Robert Felettiwill hold meetings this week with bakers to advance in a new bread price dealafter the implementation of the wheat trust that will guarantee a drop in the bag of industrial flour used for commercial processing.
Last month, bakers and Domestic Trade had agreed on a range of 220-270 pesos for a kilo of bread, which later became difficult due to the rise in wheat generated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the consequent rise in the bag of flour. of wheat 000 that the mills commercialize.
In radio statements last week, Feletti said that the wheat trust “is going to allow with the increase in withholdings decided by Agriculture, that is 350, 360 million dollars, keep the price of wheat stabilized at 25,000 pesos per tona”, sources from the sector informed Télam.
In this way, he affirmed that “the mill can put the bag that is used for making bread, fresh pasta, pizza at 1,150 pesos, which had reached 2,000 pesos, it is a significant drop.”
“Now I have to sit down with all the bakers, with the pasta factory houses and try to ensure that this effectively reaches the consumer and that this subsidy is not lost along the way,” he added.
He recalled that “with the bakeries we had maintained a range of kilos of bread between 220-270 pesos; we know that there are 30,000 bakeries, that there is a lot of diversity in the rental of premises, location, that is why the bread range is so wide, against the bag in 1,300 pesos”.
“Now I have to sit down with all the bakers, with the pasta factory houses and try to ensure that this effectively reaches the consumer and that this subsidy is not lost along the way.”Robert Feletti
“We can repeat that agreement and avoid a kilo of bread above 300 pesos“, he assured.
On the other hand, this Monday is the deadline for compliance with the measure to bring back the prices of 580 products in supermarkets to March 10, after Internal Trade detected “speculative maneuvers” with price increases of 14.5% average in three days.
At a press conference, Feletti said that “there is a deadline until Monday to roll back these prices,” adding that “there is no reason or cost estimate to justify these increases.”
“These are speculative maneuvers that we are not going to tolerate, because they are against the Argentines and the Argentines,” he sentenced.
