The Prices and Consumer Affairs Division is monitoring local supermarkets to ensure consumers benefit from the government’s temporary suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on basic food items, Director General of Communications Maurice Merchant said Thursday.
Speaking at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing, Merchant confirmed that the measure is already in force. “It is in place,” he said. “Individuals should have already started to see some decrease in the cost of those items. The tariffs have been removed.”
Responding to a question about whether consumer protection officials are adequately equipped to verify compliance, Merchant said, “They are equipped. They were the first to be notified of the reduction as this came through the Ministry of Trade. They are aware and they are monitoring.”
He added that price-tracking data will be reflected in upcoming reports. “We should see some reporting during the next cycle of monthly reports that we get from these divisions as it relates to the lifting of the CET on these items,” he said.
The Cabinet decision to lift import tariffs on key goods was intended to ease the cost of living, and officials have pledged corrective action if retailers fail to pass on the savings.
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I know sometimes ANR might get fed of with me but when I am angry I have to express myself. Consumer Affairs just have to monitor dem Supermarket tight, tight, tight. This morning in went in to Epicurean, Friars Hill, a Caucasian woman took up a small pack of broccoli and the price so ridiculous she did not just put it back on the shelf, she dash um back and just say chups, much less to me just above minimum wage
So you are still racially retarded judging from your statements. Stay backward and die!
The monitoring should be done in ALL MAJOR SUPERMARKETS since NOTHING HAS CHANGED in the last three weeks of me shopping.
Communism at they best. This department is obsolete. This fattty employees going around the ghetto little supermarkets for showing. Never i see one of this fatties into the major supermarket???? Why???.
Ps. May the big scam coming from accepting a bag full of cancro additives (this fatties like it). Shame of you….