Despite the fact that a large part of the Government and businessmen are in “summer mode”, there is a sector of the ruling party that is working to stretch the agreements of pricesbeyond the maturity agreed at the end of February.
The Government is firmly convinced that the Program of Prices righteous it contributes to the deceleration of inflation and for this reason they will seek its continuity, especially in a year that will be marked by elections.
In the Palacio de Hacienda they assure that they will seek articulation in the first place with the “Prices Just gondola “, nearly two thousand consumer products, whose prices are frozen. The discussion, in that case, will be whether to maintain the same basket for another three or four months, plus what the price update percentage will be.
The Secretary of Commerce is studying alternatives to compensate businessmen for the loss of profitability that could be caused by the freezing of the price of their products. For items that are outside of Fair Prices, they anticipate a 4% monthly increase.
Some production sectors suffered significant increases in their inputsas in the case of the wine sector, which registered an increase of 77% in the transfer wine, used in the production of common or tetra wines, in the last two months.