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BRASILIA – The President of Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras), João Sanzovo Neto, said on Wednesday 9 that there should be a campaign for the Brazilian to replace rice with pasta. According to him, there is no deadline for the price of the product to be reduced for consumers.
“We will be promoting the consumption of pasta, pasta, which is a substitute for rice. And we will guide consumers who do not store (rice),” he said, after meeting with the president. Jair bolsonaro, in Brasilia, to discuss the issue of the increase in prices of the products of the basic basket in gondolas.
The price of food was highlighted by the 0.24% increase in the country’s official inflation in August, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) this Wednesday, 9. Two foods attracted attention: rice, with an increase of 19.2% in the year, and soybean oil, which rose 18.6% in the period.
In 2014, in the government of the former president Dilma rousseff, when meat was the villain of inflation, the Secretary of Economic Policy of the Ministry of Finance, Marcio Holland, suggested replacing it with cheaper foods, such as eggs and poultry.
Asked about Bolsonaro’s speech in recent days, he asked “patriotism” to supermarket owners and that they work with a profit “close to zero”, Sanzovo Neto said that he explained to the president that the sector “is already doing this.” “We have always done this in essential products,” he told reporters.
The president of Abras was informed that the National Consumer Secretariat (Senacon), Linked to Ministry of Justice, notified companies and cooperative associations linked to the production, distribution and sale of food in the basic basket to question the rise in prices of products. He indicated that he was puzzled by the information. Everyone will have five days to answer questions.
After the meeting, Sanzovo Neto said in an interview that the markets are not “the villains” of the inflation of the basic basket, and that the problem is linked to excess demand, mainly abroad, and the lack of supply. In practice, this means that there is a shortage of product and therefore the price increases.
“It is the law of the market, it is supply and demand. If fewer products are offered, and in this case, many of our products were being exported, the producer prefers to export because the exchange rate is high and he has a higher income than his. product … “, justified.
Yesterday, in Estadão, The Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, said that the government will not make any kind of intervention in the prices of the main foods in the Brazilian basic basket. “We are living in a situation of transition, it is a specific issue and it will pass. The government is not going to make any intervention in market prices, what we are doing is constant monitoring, “he said.
This Wednesday, 9, the Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) should zero the rice import tariff, according to the Estadão / Broadcast. The reduction may take effect as of tomorrow, if it is published today in an extra edition of the Official Gazette, or as of Friday, if the publication is made tomorrow.
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