Damascus-Sana
Participants in the Damascus Chamber of Commerce Board meeting with food and consumer goods merchants at the chamber’s headquarters reviewed ways to reduce commodity prices in the markets and support price reduction initiatives, both in shopping festivals and charitable markets with the approaching month of Ramadan.
Chamber Chairman Muhammad Abu Al-Hoda Al-Lahham referred to the repercussions of the economic situation and the unilateral economic measures imposed on Syria that led to the rise in commodity prices of all kinds, calling on the business sector to re-study prices and sell at cost rates with the approach of the blessed month of Ramadan and in light of these circumstances that Syria is going through.
For his part, Chamber Secretary Muhammad al-Hallaq drew attention to the need to strengthen cooperation and cooperation between all segments of society and to expand individual and collective initiatives to reduce prices.
In turn, a member of the Damascus Chamber of Industry Board of Directors Talal Qala Ji pointed to the wide participation of commercial and industrial activities in the Ramadan charitable market announced by the Ministry of Awqaf, which will be held during the blessed month of Ramadan in the old exhibition city in Damascus, pointing to the registration of about 250 companies, indicating that participation is free in this The market to reduce the burdens on the participants, most of whom are production companies, to provide products and goods to citizens at cost rates during the holy month of Ramadan.
In addition, the Damascus Chamber of Commerce issued a statement stressing the need to educate those who are led by the phantom fluctuations in exchange rates so that it is not a tool, even without his will, to achieve the goals of those who target the living conditions of the Syrian citizen, whether by publishing and adopting exchange rates illegally or by changing prices up with the rise Foreign exchange rate.
The Chamber affirmed that the stability of commodity prices is a fundamental goal and a necessary need to build a healthy economy in general, indicating that the decline in the purchasing power of the citizen will harm the first thing that harms the movement of markets, especially that a trader who works in one field is a consumer in other fields.
The Chamber called on the commercial family to stand together with the national economy to win the battles of our economic war, including the exchange rate battle, to prove to ourselves and our enemies first that will is the key to victory in the battles.