The price of basic goods does not change – Tejaratnews

According to Tejarat News, Ehsan Khandozi said about the rate of 28,500 of the central bank that it allocates for the export of the country’s oil and for the import of basic goods: this policy has not changed at all and remains in place.

He added: “The government provides its own oil to the central bank with a preferred currency.”

Khandozi said: There will be no change in the price of basic goods (IRNA).

Khandoozi’s new account of the government’s meeting with large industries before announcing the resolution to change feed rates

Ehsan Khandozi stated: In the past 10 years, one of the most challenging issues between the government and the parliament was determining the gas feed rate for industries, and to overcome this annual conflict, a permanent law was devised and a formula was promulgated in 1994, and it was supposed to continue for 10 years.

He added: After the war in Ukraine and the sharp increase in gas prices, to support industries, the government set a ceiling of 5 thousand tomans for feed in 1400.

The Minister of Economy said: In order to realize the revenues of Note 14 of the 1402 budget based on the approval of the parliament and at the same time to make the economy predictable, the government decided to return to the formula in determining the feed rate, of course, until the ceiling is determined.

The Minister of Economy emphasized: After receiving the opinion of the owners of industries, production departments and relevant ministries, the matter was examined in repeated meetings and we reached this decision, and we have assured in the recent resolution that the formula for determining the feed rate of industries will continue with the determination of the ceiling and floor. To maintain certainty and predictability for investors.

Khandozi continued: Conditions were created that the prices that were a signal and caused unofficial exports whose currency did not return will disappear, and one of the positive points of the government’s recent decree is that the dealers who created false demand will be cut short. Some dissatisfaction with the government’s recent currency approval was due to the loss of rent that was created by the previous conditions and has now been lost.

The Minister of Economy pointed out that at the same time as controlling inflation, we are also looking for predictability of the economy, he said: before announcing the government’s decision regarding the change in the exchange rate of petrochemical feedstock and also the change in the exchange rate, the base price calculation in the commodity exchange should be done with the stakeholders to regulate the market. Coordinated.

He added that the factors that caused the government’s decision to increase the exchange rate of feed and the base price of petrochemical products in the stock market was the prediction of price effects, and we believed that we should also think about curbing inflation in addition to the goal of industrial production and growth. Several frequent meetings between different departments of the government and industry activists are held and a middle way is chosen in order to achieve both the goal of increasing production and curbing inflation.

Khandozi said: One of the clauses of the government’s recent decree is related to the prevention of inflation, and unfortunately, some people are fueling inflationary expectations in cyberspace by creating a mental atmosphere, while solutions have been considered for price effects.

He added, if we were to increase the base price from 28,500 to the rate of the exchange center, the price would increase, but a precise identification was made of the products that were important in people’s consumption basket, for those cases only the rate of 28,500 is considered, so it will not have any price effects in this field. .

The economic spokesperson of the government said: Apart from the psychological effects of the first days of this new decision of the government, which will come back, it will not have any price effect. The resolution was explained to the beneficiaries before the implementation, and large industries pledged that the supply would be in such a way that there would be no price effect for the important goods in the household basket (Tasnim).