Damascus-Sana
The Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection today launched a campaign to monitor and control markets to counter the attempt of some vulnerable people to exploit the fluctuations of the foreign exchange rate to raise the prices of food and commodities.
The campaign, entitled “Together in the Face of Fraud and Manipulation of Markets,” aims to ensure the availability and quality of goods, foodstuffs and consumer goods in the markets and their compliance with the Syrian health and safety conditions, especially baby food and the fact that prices are high, especially to ensure that there are no rises. Illogical prices and prevent attempts by some to exploit exchange rate fluctuations to raise prices and take deterrent measures against them.
Following a tour of the cardamom markets in Zabaltani, Al Mazraa and Al Baramkeh in Damascus, the Assistant Minister of Interior Trade and Consumer Protection, Eng. Jamal Al Deen Shoaib, stressed the need to abide by trading bills, highlighting the cards and not manipulating specifications. The citizen's daily needs or sells corrupt, expired, smuggled or anonymous items.
In turn, Director of Consumer Protection Ali Al-Khatib pointed to the availability of a wide variety of goods, food and basic consumer goods of good quality in the farm halls and Umayyad complex in Baramkeh belonging to the Syrian Foundation for Trade at prices lower than market prices by 20 percent and cheaper meat between 1500 and 2000 pounds, stressing the existence of elements of supply control Markets around the clock and respond to citizens' complaints.
During the tour, six officers were arrested against a number of shopkeepers in Al-Zublatani for not announcing prices, committing excessive selling and not showing invoices.
