The Ministry of Commerce published this Wednesday on its website the list of 1,974 mass consumption items that make up the new basket of the Fair Prices programwith fixed values until the end of June.
The measure sets the prices of almost 2,000 essential products for 120 days, through voluntary agreements with producing and marketing companies.
The products are found in supermarkets, wholesale distributors, and businesses adhering to the program by province or region.
Basket Fair Prices by telam on Scribd
The almost 2,000 basic necessities with fixed prices until the end of June account for around 14% of the total items that make up the Fair Price basket
Through an app you can scan the barcode of each product and know if it is covered by the measure; In addition, non-compliances may be reported.
Last Friday, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, launched the extension of the Fair Prices Program that will run until next June and reduces the monthly average of adjustments for 86% of the products that make up from 4% to 3.2%. part of the offer that consumers can access.
“What this program intends is, by containing 86% of the products that Argentines consume, to give them two certainties: the first is that there are almost 50,000 products and the second that from February 1 to June 30 they will increase only 3 2% per month,” Massa said at the ceremony that took place at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK).
This relaunch of the program brings forward to February the central guidelines of the agreement announced in November of last year, which in principle was going to be extended until March, in which an average monthly increase of 4% was stipulated with the participation of 102 companies.
This time the numbers are more ambitious: the average increase drops to 3.2% and the number of companies increases almost fivefold.
The expansion plans to maintain a basket of 2,000 products with frozen prices, which are estimated to rise by around 9% compared to January, and which will rotate according to the production of each company.
