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Gas cylinders will be adjusted by 15%

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Consumers Paraná using the gas cylinders of 13 kg shall have, as of this week, see increases around 15% in the price of the product.

The difference is due to an increase, applied to the last Monday (16) in the amount charged by distributors to resellers who in turn are passed to the final consumer.

Thus, the P13 cylinders, as in Curitiba cost on average U.S. $ 35, should move to around U.S. $ 38 to U.S. $ 40. The last increase in the product, occurred in August of last year was around $ 1.

"We were caught by surprise by the increase, which came to power, very high," says the president of the Retailers Association of Gas Cooking of Paraná (Sinregás-PR), José Luiz Rocha.

According to him, as is common in the industry at the beginning of winter, the distributors cut the discount on the product, which are applied mainly during the summer. This time, however, the adjustment came before.

According to Rocha, which is common for distributors adjustments are passed almost immediately to the final consumer for resale. "As we have very limited stock up to meet the standards of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), some dealers restock every day," he explains. Thus, claims Rocha, few traders have stocks purchased by the old price, even a few days after the increase.

The chairman of Sinregás-PR shows also that talks with leaders of trade unions in other regions, who also admitted the adjustment. In Brasilia, for example, the value of the cylinders of 13 kg would be worth U.S. $ 45. As Rocha, the consumer remains the direction of where ", which is much research before buying, but avoiding illegal sales.

Contacted the National Union of Enterprises Distributors of liquefied petroleum gas (Sindigás) informed by advice from his press, which has a rule not to comment on issues relating to price, since the market distribution is free to set the values of their products.



Source: Paraná Online

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