Between Monday and Wednesday of next week, the Ministry of Economy will announce the imported products that will be subject to zero tariff, a measure that will allow the prices of the 21 food products of the basic basket that make up the anti-inflationary plan to stabilize. announced the head of the agency, Tatiana Clouthier.
With the list of 16 actions of the Package Against Inflation and Scarcity (PACIC) “there would be no justification per se for a greater increase in merchandise” classified in the basic basket, warned, the Secretary of Economy, estimating that no later than one month, the effects of the plan will be reflected in the Mexican economy and in the pockets of the population with the least income.
“First of all, a thank you to all the producers, to all the final distributors who joined this effort, they are joining by the mere fact of coming out with the announcement, we must say, that it has already had an effect in terms of rice and I am going to put it like this: the secretary of the Treasury said, we already had a statement from the counterpart in the United States, for the mere announcement of no tariffs, the price of rice has already dropped 3%”, exemplified the official.
He mentioned that the basic basket of the 21 products has a cost of 1,129 pesos, according to Profeco, so that in the coming days, businessmen will have the freedom to manage prices according to their profits.
“If I am in Cancun and in Cancun, due to logistics, it is much more expensive for the rice to arrive, maybe I cannot sacrifice my profit as much for rice, but I can compensate it because I have local soaps here. , because here I have local pork meat”, explained Clouthier.