The role of commercial interests in maintaining the prices of subsidized materials during the Corona crisis (The Directorate of Trade and Export Promotion in Chlef Province is an example)

Abstract

This study aims to define the concept of subsidies, their objectives and the most important subsidized materials in Algeria and to highlight the role of trade interests in controlling the market and maintaining the prices of subsidized materials, especially food ones, during the period of the Corona pandemic, through the role played by the State Directorate of Trade and Export Promotion of the State of Chlef in confronting misleading and dishonest practices, considering that these materials have been the subject of many violations, especially through raising their prices or not respecting profit margins, or through speculation. Illegal monopoly in order to create scarcity resulting in instability in the market and unjustified rise in prices, so that we relied in this study on the presentation and analysis of statistics provided by the Directorate, where the study concluded that the intervention of trade interests contributed to maintaining the stability of the prices of subsidized goods based on the digital earnings of the latter.