MART reduces list of socially important commodities
<p> MINSK, Jul 7 - PrimePress. The Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of Belarus (MART) has reduced the list of socially important commodities, the prices of which are subject to temporary regulation for up to 90 days since April 17, 2020 (MART resolution No.45 of June 23, 2020 posted on the National Legal Internet Portal on July 7). </p> <p> </p> <p> This is done considering stabilization of the consumer market of Belarus. Price regulation is only maintained with respect to socially Important foods. Approaches to the regulation of prices and wholesale and trade markups remain unchanged, MART says. </p> <p> </p> <p> Resolution No.45 removes coffee, canned meat and fish, powdered milk, solid toilet and laundry soap, matches, sanitary pads, diapers (for children and adults) and toilet paper from the list of socially important commodities. </p> <p> </p> <p> The upd ated list includes 19 items: fresh fish (cyprinids), fresh-frozen fish with or without head, gutted and ungutted (cyprinids, cods, herring, mackerel, argentine), butter, wheat flour, sunflower and rapeseed oil, table salt, white polished rice, semolina, millet, oat flakes without flavoring or other additives, dry pasta without durum wheat flour, rye and rye-wheat bread, wheat bread, wheat flour bakery products (loaves), meat (beef, pork, chicken and broiler chicken), cuts and large-sized semi-finished products, cooked sausages, fresh chicken eggs, pasteurized cow milk, kefir from cow milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese (hard, semi-solid), baby food (dry mixes, cereals, canned), fresh vegetables (potato, beet, carrot, cabbage, onion, cucumber, tomato, apple), and black long leaf tea. </p> <p> </p> <p> The decision came into force upon its official publication. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, MART resolution No.30 of March 15, 2020 set the importers’ maximum allowable markup at 10%. The maximum trade markup (with the wholesale markup) to producers’ selling prices of socially important goods was se t at 15-30%. It stands at 15% for milk and dairy products, 20% for bread and bakery products, sausages and canned meat, 30% for vegetables and fresh apples, 25% for chicken eggs, and 20% for butter. End </p>
2020-07-07
Primepress
MART reduces list of socially important commodities
MINSK, Jul 7 - PrimePress. The Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of Belarus (MART) has reduced the list of socially important commodities, the prices of which are subject to temporary regulation for up to 90 days since April 17, 2020 (MART resolution No.45 of June 23, 2020 posted on the National Legal Internet Portal on July 7).
This is done considering stabilization of the consumer market of Belarus. Price regulation is only maintained with respect to socially Important foods. Approaches to the regulation of prices and wholesale and trade markups remain unchanged, MART says.
Resolution No.45 removes coffee, canned meat and fish, powdered milk, solid toilet and laundry soap, matches, sanitary pads, diapers (for children and adults) and toilet paper from the list of socially important commodities.
The upd ated list includes 19 items: fresh fish (cyprinids), fresh-frozen fish with or without head, gutted and ungutted (cyprinids, cods, herring, mackerel, argentine), butter, wheat flour, sunflower and rapeseed oil, table salt, white polished rice, semolina, millet, oat flakes without flavoring or other additives, dry pasta without durum wheat flour, rye and rye-wheat bread, wheat bread, wheat flour bakery products (loaves), meat (beef, pork, chicken and broiler chicken), cuts and large-sized semi-finished products, cooked sausages, fresh chicken eggs, pasteurized cow milk, kefir from cow milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese (hard, semi-solid), baby food (dry mixes, cereals, canned), fresh vegetables (potato, beet, carrot, cabbage, onion, cucumber, tomato, apple), and black long leaf tea.
The decision came into force upon its official publication.
As previously reported, MART resolution No.30 of March 15, 2020 set the importers’ maximum allowable markup at 10%. The maximum trade markup (with the wholesale markup) to producers’ selling prices of socially important goods was se t at 15-30%. It stands at 15% for milk and dairy products, 20% for bread and bakery products, sausages and canned meat, 30% for vegetables and fresh apples, 25% for chicken eggs, and 20% for butter. End