A meeting on PTA prices and food security was held in the Digital Office of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan

On March 12 this year, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov held a meeting on the implementation of the instructions given by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev since the beginning of this year.

The issues of price stabilization for socially important food products, food security and antitrust response measures were considered at the meeting. Over the past week, prices for socially important food products increased by 0.2%.

Cabbage rose the most by 1.6%, sugar by 0.6% and potatoes by 0.5%. In the context of regions, the maximum price increase for the week was allowed in the Mangystau region by 0.8%, in the Kostanay and Kyzylorda regions by 0.4%.

The Deputy Prime Minister criticized the work of the akimats of these regions and instructed to strengthen control over prices for each food item. He also instructed to carry out work on an ongoing basis to monitor compliance by trade entities with the permissible trade allowance.

During the meeting, the AZRC reported that work is currently continuing on previously initiated 7 investigations on signs of anticompetitive coordinated actions to increase prices for NWT in Kostanay, Karaganda, Akmola, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan, for the production of fertilizers in Mangistau region and Almaty. 2 investigations have been completed in Akmola region against a bread producer and Zhambyl region against a sugar factory.

According to previously issued notifications, 8 were executed with a reduction in the price of products (5 in the Kostanay region and 3 in the North Kazakhstan region). 7 acts of antimonopoly compliance have been concluded to prevent violations of the legislation in the field of competition protection, as well as in terms of reducing the trade premium on NWPT from 15 to 10% when they are implemented.

In addition, Bakhyt Sultanov instructed to strengthen the work of regional commissions to investigate intermediary schemes throughout the pricing chain with the adoption of appropriate measures. The Akimat of the Turkestan region was instructed, together with MIT and the Ministry of Agriculture, to ensure the supply of early vegetables, including cabbage, to the regions of the country in a "manual mode". It should be noted that more than 1200 producers of the Turkestan region plan to harvest cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions. Stay up to date with the events of the Prime Minister, etc

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