The silent return of the Competition Council to the field of car pricing/ From the protest of parliamentarians to mandatory pricing to the silence of governments

Khodrocar - The General Director of Public Relations of the Competition Council has recently announced the weekly meetings of this council to review car prices every week and emphasized that new prices will be announced soon.

Referring to the vagueness of how to calculate car prices, Sepehr Dadjovi Tavakoli stated that the companies do not provide any clear information in this regard, but the council's weekly meetings continue to check car prices and this is in the process of expert work.

He mentioned that based on specific instructions, the Competition Council is obliged to monitor the market and the process of car production and distribution, and in this way, the price analysis of all types of products is also done, but this does not mean that every three months. The price of the car will increase, but based on the instructions of 543 and the cost-plast formula, that is, the basis of price adjustment, it will be based on the approved pricing criteria, which is calculated by the support organization. It will benefit both the consumer and the producer.

This process is happening while the Minister of Industry criticized the mandatory pricing in his latest statements and emphasized that if we force all the producers to supply the product at the same price, they may reduce the quality to reach the approved price.

Abbas Aliabadi is complex, in order to prevent harm to producers, it is better to set a price base and a price range. In this case, the high-quality product will have its customers, and the producer of the low-quality product will either have to improve its quality or offer the product at a lower price.

Although the Minister of Industry has repeatedly expressed his opposition to mandatory pricing, this opposition has only been in words so far and no serious action has been taken to remove mandatory prices.

The Chairman of the Parliament's Industries and Mines Commission also announced during his visit to the exhibition of auto parts and assemblies that the Parliament opposes mandatory pricing and emphasized that this action is a form of inflicting losses on the producer without compensating him for his expected losses.

He rejected the competition council's claim that his production and market are exclusive and believes there is no point in being a single source despite various government and private car manufacturers operating in the country. Although he does not consider the presence of the competition council in pricing, he has not provided a solution for this council's exit from the pricing of the automobile industry.

These oppositions are said that the second phase of price liberalization will be keyed with the possibility of returning the car to the commodity exchange. It seemed that the removal of half of the currency from the automobile industry was the first phase of price liberalization, and the re-supply of automobiles in the commodity exchange was implemented by the policymaker as the second phase of this.

The Ministry of Industry intended to take gradual steps to eliminate mandated pricing by relying on new methods such as offering cars on the stock market, but it seems that despite the opposition of all the elements, even the president himself, to mandated pricing, the National Competition Council does not have to leave this field.

According to Khodrocar, while it was expected that by removing the preferred currency of the automobile industry and providing the needed currency from exportation, the initial steps to remove mandatory pricing have been taken, the Competition Council announced with its official announcement that new car prices will be determined in the future. Closely dashed the hopes of removing mandatory pricing in the auto industry. Now it has to be seen if the new prices are announced and the reaction of the market and officials to this procedure, what serious decision will be taken to determine the pricing model of this industry.