According to the law on trade, if for 30 consecutive calendar days retail prices for certain types of socially important food commodities will be 30% or more, the government has the right not more than 90 days to set maximum allowable retail prices for them.
the food Situation in Russia remains stable
the intervention of the antitrust authority in the pricing of market participants may, if they occupy a dominant position, as well as in case of execution of participants of the market of anti-competitive agreements or anticompetitive implementation of actions specified in the FAS.
According to the monitoring, which is conducted by the Department in large retail chains of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg (“Perekrestok”, “Pyaterochka”, “Disks”, “Metro”), the average price of lemons was less than 145 rubles per kilogram. At the same time to other networks (“Coswell”, “globe”) the price of lemons imported from Uzbekistan, ranged from 230 to 899 rubles per kilogram.
however, the average price of lemons “on the shelf” chain stores “Magnet” in all districts of the Russian Federation is less than 130 rubles per kilogram, ginger root – about 400 rubles, reported in the FAS.
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they added that the domestic market for these products is almost entirely dependent on imports, and the increase in prices caused by a decrease in PRizlojeniya in connection with the restrictions imposed by the countries importers because of the threat of the spread of coronavirus infection. They also contributed to short-term increase in demand.
After the normalization of the situation with imports prices will also go down, believe in Antimonopoly service.
