The Package against Inflation and Scarcity (PACIC) will impact on the reduction of costs to the producer in approximately 10% to create a “cushion” that cushions the world inflationand allow the stability of prices expected in the food canning industry, in products such as tuna, sardines and soups, said the director of the National Chamber of the Food Canning Industry (Canainca), Jonas Murillo.
“Having the support that the Ministry of Economysuch as delaying the implementation of the consignment note, reduce tariffs, will help us a lot. The issue of security is fundamental, because it generates an additional cost for us to send a truck with surveillance or for it to be stolen, and that increases the insurance premiums, the costs in the end and that the government supports us, in the end it is good for stability. of prices, we as an industry have worked to be able to give the best possible price within our possibilities”, Murillo said.
Interviewed in the framework of Concamin Business Meeting 2022, the representative of the canned food industry affirmed that with the subsidies granted by the federal government “we could have an impact of 10%, which is the inflation that the cost of producing is having. The data is at 15% and what has increased consumer prices is that it does not even reach 8%”, therefore, inflation is lower for the consumer than for the producerassured.
The Canainca leader specified that by reducing costs by 10%, the difference between consumer inflation and producer costs could be maintained. “We have to maintain formal and well-paid jobs. We are not going to lower costs at the expense of the employees,” he said.
He recalled that the sector faces an increase in raw material costs, especially in glass, steel and aluminum container supplies. While, he said, there is no shortage, they are up.
“Glass, aluminum and steel have risen 10 percent. Glass, for example, has risen a lot, due to the gas price Really, the great impact of glass in manufacturing is gas consumption, as the price of gas has risen a lot, that is where we are seeing that repercussion on prices”, he added.
about surveillance of the prophet on the basic basketthe manager commented that “the price issue should not enter, we live in a market system of free competition and self-regulation of the market itself”.