2023-05-11 20:16:56
“Industrialists are not playing the game, they are refusing to come back to the negotiating table to negotiate lower prices,” Bruno Le Maire told TMC on Thursday evening.
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With the support of large retailers received at Bercy, the government again asked, Thursday, May 11, the agro-food manufacturers to participate in the collective effort to limit the rise in prices, by calling “to their sense of responsibility”.
“Manufacturers do not play the game, they refuse to return to the negotiating table to negotiate lower prices”said Thursday evening Bruno Le Maire on TMCestimating “that they do not have to take advantage of this crisis”. The Minister defended the reopening of trade negotiations between manufacturers and distributors, “when wholesale prices fall”.
“We will use all the instruments at our disposal”
“If ever the agro-food manufacturers refuse to enter into this negotiation, which obviously I cannot imagine, we will use all the instruments at our disposal, including the tax instrument, to recover margins which would be undue margins made on the backs of consumers”warned Bruno Le Maire in the morning.
“No, there are no profiteers”took offense at RTL Thursday Jean-Philippe André, president of the National Association of Food Industries. “In all contracts, we have automatic revision clauses upwards or downwards if there are variations in raw materials”he recalled.
The new president of the majority agricultural union FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, regretted Thursday during a press conference a form of “one-upmanship” supplied by the Minister of the Economy and the distributors. According to him, this risks reviving “a price war” low, which would penalize farmers’ income and the sustainability of farms.
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