For the week from July 25 to July 1, 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$298.91 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.
The average weekly exchange rate is RD$54.84 of the daily publications of the Central Bank.
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The government announced that it maintains the extraordinary subsidy for hydrocarbons with more than RD$1,631 million, to avoid dramatic increases in the local market, as reported by the Deputy Minister of Internal Trade, Ramón Pérez Fermín.
“The government of President Luis Abinader once again makes an extraordinary sacrifice to prevent the hikes from impacting Dominicans, at a cost of 1,631 million pesos. With this, we stop the increases in LPG of more than 5 pesos per gallon; of Premium Gasoline for more than 80 pesos per gallon; of the Regular for almost 90 pesos; Regular Gasoil of more than 125 pesos per gallon; and Optimum Gasoil of almost 125 pesos per gallon,” said Vice Minister Pérez.
He explained that the international price of WTI averaged 111.87 dollars, for a significant decrease of 6.4% in relation to the average of the previous week, which amounted to US$119.47. He explained that the accumulated increase continues to rise in the year and is around 44%.
