Govt. working to reduce commodity prices: Commerce Advisor

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Staff Correspondent, Barta24.com, Dhaka | 2024-10-09 18:20:54

Commerce and Finance Adviser said that the government is working to reduce the price of goods. Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed said, it will take time to see the impact. Don't be impatient.

He told reporters this at the end of the meeting of the advisory committee on government procurement in the conference room of the Cabinet Division at the Secretariat on Wednesday (October 9).

The commerce adviser said that he does not think that inflation has increased suddenly. There are many factors behind it. Here is the market factor. There is a monitoring factor in the market. Product production, product marketing... Even if it is produced, there is a lot to do with marketing. In many places the old people have left, the new people are again...

The adviser said that extortion has not decreased, it has not. Extortion has decreased. But changing hands isn't the only thing that's abated at the moment.

How many days can the price of eggs decrease? Finance and Commerce Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed did not give any answer when such questions were asked by the journalists.

Inflation officially fell by 1 percent, the Finance adviser said. We have already given some decisions. I have reduced the duty on oil. Today the duty on sugar has been reduced.

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