The Department of Commerce announces new weekly discounts on consumer prices
Discriminatory pricing measures include fish, greens, oils and cows in large commercial spaces to pressure prices and counteract supply decline.
The Ministry of Trade and Export Development announced the approval of a new round of special discounts and differential prices on a number of consumer goods in major commercial spaces, to be launched on Saturday 31 October 2026. These decisions include weekly reductions in prices for fish, greens, unsupported vegetable oils and cows, as well as price cuts for some crops.
The specified list includes the price of a kilogram of rotten fish at 18 dinars and shrimps at 25 dinars and 500 mm, as well as the price of one kilogram of apples and peaches at 6 dinars. Also, the price of unsupported vegetable oil and koolza oil was set at 7 dinars and 900 mm for a 1.8 liter packet, and 20 dinars and900 mm for a 5 litre packet, along with lowering the prices of boxes of cooked cheese to sell the box of 8 pieces at a price of 2.700 mm and 16 pieces at a cost of 4.900 mm.
The Director-General for Competition and Economic Research of the Ministry of Commerce, Samir Al-Khalifawi, said that the programme of reductions in prices of a number of consumer products will continue on a weekly basis throughout the year. The background explains that these measures are aimed at pressing prices and providing products at a disproportionate price for citizens. These cuts are a follow-up to previous reduction campaigns involving poultry and poultry products throughout October 2026, in order to cope with the decline in supply for some agricultural products. The measures are based on the regulatory, legal and regulatory framework for competition, prices and anti-monopoly, through coordination between the ministry, producers and distributors to push trade profit margins and set specific price ceilings.
In the coming period, the Ministry intends to continue the weekly reduction programme, with the launch of a private program to cap the prices of other agricultural products including potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, and intensify field economic surveillance campaigns in wholesale and retail markets.