The prices of food items on Market shelves continue to change day by day. All this frustrates citizens, and the announcement of additional increase in eggs, rice and oils are especially worrying pensioners, but also multi-family families.
Global movements
We lock the Project in the prices within which the prices stopped about 60 nutritional and non-food products was somewhat stopped at the household house budgets. That is aware of the Federal Minister of Trade Amir Hasicevic.
– We lock the project price could not stop the overall growth of life costs, but prevented an even larger impact on the home budgets of citizens. This measure has temporarily restrained price growth in about 60 basic food and non-food items, but it is clear that the market continues to respond to global developments – growth of energy, logistics and raw materials, which is inevitably overflowing and our retail. According to the latest data from the Federal Bureau of Statistics, FBiH for the first three months of 2025. It was the average 3.2 percent, which is the smallest rate in relation to inflation in the region. Nevertheless, food prices and non-alcoholic beverages recorded a growth of about 0.3 percent, which citizens feel every day despite the measures we spend, Hasicevic told Liberation.
He points out that the announcements of new prices from June, including oil, rice and eggs, additionally increase the justified consumer concern.
– Therefore, we are already preparing a set of new measures, including stricter market analysis, prices in the supply chain and additional support to domestic production, in order to mitigate the stroke to consumers and ensure the fairer market, says Hasicevic.
Gordana Bulić, President of the Tuzla Canton Consumer, says that the consumer associations were involved in the project for the project, we conclude the prices that, as it supports.
– I support because it is primarily a matter of goodwill traders to engage in order to keep the prices of some basic living products for some time. It is about 60 products and your computer is to have effect. When comparing the prices of locked products from a particular segment with those who are not locked, the difference is seen. For example, sunflower oil was locked at 3.15 KM, and the usual oil price is 3.45 or 3.50 KM. The price is, however, lower and families living with modest income savings of each brand come well. For 3-4 liters of oil, you save up to 1.5 km and it would be said that it is nothing, but at 60 products saved 60 km for the moon, Bulić said.
Our interlocutor sees the problem and that some consumers sometimes do not show enough will, nor discipline to inquire about prices and check them.
– Sometimes they do not show enough will that in the market find that locked price, although these products are quite clear in stores. This edible oil of 3.15 KM is not worse than other brands of oil. All in all, the prices of those products that have the largest turnover and for these products were asked to be at least one brand with a locked price, Bulić emphasizes.
It points out that the relevant ministry, in the end of three months until the prices are locked, is preparing new activities on controls, although it says, all this difficult “because we have free price formation and free market.”
Quality grains
From Bimal dd Brčko, we requested an answer to the question whether to increase oil in recent times.
– Our company has not increased the prices in recent months. According to current market forecasts and condition, we do not expect the price increase in the company in the coming period. However, we want to remind that BiH does not have enough developed agricultural production that can fully meet the needs of the domestic market. Our company redeems all quality grains that produce domestic producers, but that is not enough to avoid importing raw materials. You know that the edible oil is a stock exchange slave, and that the European and world market dictates the situation on BiH. The market and shelves in sales facilities pointed out Natasa Pucar, director of corporate communications of Studen Holding.
Adds that “our production and our market supply is stable” and reminds how important it is that in BiH is a factory of edible oil, as one of the basic foods, writes Liberation.
