AMMAN —
Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh said on Tuesday that the civil and military
consumer corporations have a key role, along with the private sector, in providing
stable supplies of basic foodstuffs and preventing price-gouging.
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In remarks during
a tour of consumer corporation markets in the Amman district of Bayader Wadi
Al-Seer, the prime minister commended the corporations for steps they took to
provide sufficient supplies of goods at fair prices ahead of the start of the
holy month of Ramadan and beyond.
The Kingdom has a
safe stock of staple commodities that is enough for long periods, he assured,
noting Royal directives to ensure a strategic food reserve in warehouses and
grain silos, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
Khasawneh also
noted measures his government had taken to curb the global surge in prices and
stabilize the local market, notably reducing the general sales tax on vegetable
oils to zero, instead of 4 percent, until the end of May.
During his tour,
the prime minister talked to people in the markets and listened to their
complaints about prices, expressing his wishes on the holy month.
The directors of
the civil and military consumer corporations told the prime minister that their
facilities had early on put in place plans to ensure sufficient staple foods
during the fasting month, including vegetable oil, rice are sugar, at
reasonable prices.
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