Minister of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Rozeta Hajdari together with the Chairman of the Millers Association, Bashkim Zejnullahu, held a press conference regarding the current situation of bread prices.
Minister Hajdari in her speech to journalists said that in last days, price of a bread is changing from 0.45 cents to 0.60 cents in some bakeries, whereas the updated data of the Kosovo Customs, comparing to May 2022, confirm a drop of a 7% in wheat and flour supply prices.
Minister Hajdari emphasized that Working Group of the Ministry of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade, has analysed prices with evidence from market for basic products: wheat, flour, bread, rice, pasta from durum wheat, edible sunflower oil, milk, table salt, eggs, chicken meat, sugar, soap, detergent and sanitary napkins, noting that:
– trade margin of the basic products of most economic operators vary from 8% to 19.40% depending on the product;
-some economic operators trade with a trade margin below 5% for basic products.
"Therefore, based on the evidence, we will propose direct measures to minimize manipulations in prices of basic products, in close coordination with the Market Inspectorate at the central and municipal level, the Kosovo Customs, the Tax Administration of Kosovo, the Competition Authority and the Community of Business" concluded Minister Hajdari.
