The General Department of Market Management issued a written request to provinces and cities to strictly handle acts taking advantage of scarcity of goods on the market to buy up, collect, or taking advantage of epidemics to set unreasonable selling prices.
Accordingly, the document directed municipal market management departments to closely monitor their locality, strictly and promptly handle acts of taking advantage of scarcity of goods on the market to buy up, collector, or take advantage of the epidemic to set unreasonable selling prices of essential goods. Namely, items such as foodstuff, petroleum, medicine, medical supplies, equipment, consumer health protection to prevent and control epidemics and medical treatment in market fluctuations in supply and demand, prices of goods due to the Covid-19 epidemic; paying special attention to timely detection to handle organizations and individuals that take advantage of the scarcity of goods due to epidemics to produce, trade, trade or transport fake goods and poor quality goods. If detecting that the aforementioned acts show criminal signs, they shall promptly report them to the competent agencies for handling. The General Department of Market Management also requires the market management departments to arrange reasonable resources, giving high priority to urgently handling thoroughly the confiscated and confiscated masks.
In Binh Duong, the leader of the provincial Market Management Department said that after the written instructions, the unit has deployed to grasp the situation of trading in masks, food and foodstuffs in order to have timely interventions ... However, up to now, Binh Duong has not detected any violations.
Reported by Thanh Hong - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
