Damascus – The new administration in Syria adopts the free competitive market economy model, and this option resulted in new manifestations in the Syrian markets, which are summarized in the presence of foreign goods, fuel providing multiple types, and stopping the work with several pricing of subsidized materials such as bread and fuel, but these materials that were scarce days are days The ousted president, Bashar al -Assad, has increased its price for the citizen, while no new has occurred in his purchasing power, pending the increase in wages for workers in the general sector at the beginning of next month by 400% as is circulating.
As a result of monitoring the movement of the market and services, most of the goods have become less expensive, for reasons related to competition and the abolition of some types of customs duties that were in the era of the ousted regime, and the commodities that were previously supported that witnessed an increase, as well as the wages of some services that were based on the subsidized raw materials The most important of them is transportation, and it is worth noting that the low costs of bread and transportation were linked to their lack of availability, and to resort to the black market to secure them at prices that exceed the current price.
In a previous interview with the Minister of Internal Trade in the caretaker government, Maher Khalil Al -Hassan, with Al -Jazeera Net, it is clear that restricting the market and the complexity of restrictions, controls, fees and laws is a matter that some dictatorial regimes are carried out and used by a means and cover to plunder the people’s wealth and make them confined to the ruling gang and their gangs.
Supported fuel and bread
The price of a baking tie (12 loaves) is determined at a price of 4000 Syrian pounds ($ 0.32), without adhering to a specific mechanism for distributing it as the situation was previously by using the smart card, and determining the amount of bread according to the number of individuals of each family, and the price of a gas jar exchange is 7 kg at 160 Almost, it is added to the increase in transportation fees, according to the smart card mechanism, after the price was 21 thousand before the fall of the system, but this price was given the family (the smart card holder) the ability to replace the jar once between periods of not less than 3 months. Since the fall of the lion, the streets have been rooted in tanks of liquefied gas at a price of 27 thousand for a kilo, in addition to cars that change home gas packages almost at the same price, according to Al -Jazeera Net’s views.
Plastic packages sealed for fuel spread on the sidewalks at a changed price in the range of 13 thousand pounds (about dollars) per liter of gasoline, and different types of diesel for engines and heating at a price of 8-9 thousand per liter, characterized by its dark color and bad smell, and the good diesel is also available at the above price 13 thousand Lira for a liter.
The strategy of the system before its fall was giving vehicles a specific amount of fuel according to the smart card, which is not enough for them, which forced them to buy fuel from the black market at prices that exceeded 23 thousand pounds per liter, and transport vehicles (14 passengers) committed to putting a GPS to determine the location of the vehicle to make sure Practicing the driver to work on the transportation line, in exchange for giving him diesel at a subsidized price.
The streets are witnessing a traffic density and increasing the work of public buses and taxis after the material is available, with an increase in the ride tariff due to the new fuel price, and the passenger’s fare is graded from 2000 pounds within the administrative unit to 6000 between the city center and the cities of the Damascus countryside surrounding public transportation, and transportation wages have doubled Between the governorates from 3 to 4 times with the liberalization of the fuel price and its availability.
The electricity mode remains in its most severe cases with the limitation of electrical feeding for one hour every 12 hours, and private electricity companies have reduced the price of kilos from 15 thousand in the beginning of last December to between 9000 and 11,000 thousand pounds per kilo, and private companies operate according to the collection form Bills weekly.
Basic feeding commodities
During a tour of Al -Jazeera Net in the Bab Surijah Al -Shaabi market that meets Damascus, the prices of vegetables and fruits have been noted significantly since the fall of the regime, and some types of tropical fruits were also provided after their availability was limited to shops in high -end neighborhoods, and this decrease is due to the entry of imported types; This prompted the merchants to display their goods from warehouses as a result of competition, and the disappearance of the regime’s barriers, which burdened the path of charging the goods with royalties and exports, and one of the vehicles of the vegetable stones explains.
As for poultry and meat, their price decreased significantly, as it decreased by 40% in the case of red meat, according to the Association of Lahmeen in Damascus, and the fish returned to provide in the Syrian markets at a lower price than chicken for some types, and the frozen meat imported within the Syrian market, and the price of eggs came to half About the last days of Assad, according to a white meat dealer, this is explained by the decrease in the price of feed as a result of reducing customs restrictions, and it evaluates the movement of buying and selling as weak, despite the crowding witnessed in the markets, as many are waiting to contemplate the low prices in the coming periods.
And the grocery materials are witnessing a clear decrease in their prices by about 50% for most basic materials such as sugar, oil and flour, and lost types of shelves began in wholesale and separated shops after their flow from the liberated areas or from outside the border, and the presence of some brands in the previous era was secret due to their high customs costs or Its arrival by smuggling.
With the spread of thick stalls, including used clothes (bale), some clothes stores began to reduce their prices, and it can be said that many stores have transformed their primary activity for currency drainage.
Limited cash blocks
One of the factors for the stability of the exchange rate of the Syrian pound in front of foreign currencies is based on the adherence of the central bank in Syria to its financial bloc, and the banks set the drawing roof of 2.5 million per week, and 500 thousand as the highest amount for one withdrawal, and this is reflected in the amounts circulating in the major sales and purchases such as real estate and cars.
It is clear from the circulating offers, the high rents within Damascus, and their determination in the Syrian pound, in fear of the high price of the lira against the dollar, and the request for payment is no longer a period of one or 6 months as essential as before, but rather the division of payments monthly or every 3 months.
According to a customer within the real estate market, the sales movement is almost non -existent, and that the circulating offers are an attempt to maintain the price of real estate that is expected to decrease. Some of the types of cars have a great loss in their price, especially Korea, such as the Kia Rio model, the most present in the regime areas before its liberation, after the arrival of European cars from the liberated areas, and yesterday (26- January) arrived the first commercial transport steamer to carry cars to a port. Lattakia, according to a local media, while the vehicles and the wages of their maintenance are still within the limits of their prices before the fall of the system.
