{"id":11321,"date":"2026-10-23T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:16:01","slug":"domestic-trade-in-the-2027-finance-bill-substantial-budget-allocated-to-support-purchasing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/2026\/10\/23\/domestic-trade-in-the-2027-finance-bill-substantial-budget-allocated-to-support-purchasing-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Trade in the 2027 Finance Bill: Substantial Budget Allocated to Support Purchasing Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

A substantial budget is allocated for the Department of Internal Trade and National Market Regulation under the 2027 Draft Finance Bill (PLF), representing an approach to mobilize financial means essential to support basic product price stability and preserve citizen purchasing power in accordance with instructions from the President of the Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preserving the social character of the State, which manifests primarily through maintaining the subsidy system for basic food products, requires funding mobilization. The 2027 Draft Finance Bill grants particular importance to this segment, notably reflected by assigning a 153.38 billion dinar budget to the Internal Trade sector.<\/p>\n

Presenting sectoral budget details under the 2027 Draft Finance Bill before the Finance and Budget Committee of the National People’s Assembly on Thursday, Minister of Internal Trade Amel Abdellatif disclosed that the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been assigned under payment appropriations (+18% compared to 2026), while 149.2 billion dinars were allocated under commitment authorizations.<\/p>\n

The minister emphasized that this increase reflects the importance of ensuring coverage for tasks assigned to the sector and expanding its intervention fields, along with human, material, and technical resources needed to pursue program execution, bolster control and regulation capabilities, modernize administration, and optimize public service performance.<\/p>\n

Credits were distributed across three main programs concerning regulation, supply, and competition promotion, allocated 123.76 billion dinars in commitment authorizations and 123.8 billion dinars in payment appropriations, aiming to continue efforts focused on monitoring supply, activating mechanisms to regulate prices and profit margins, and contributing to goods transport cost coverage toward southern provinces. The goal remains supporting supply regularity and market continuity for essential goods.<\/p>\n

Price Support and Tax Relief Measures<\/strong>
\nThe minister further highlighted measures planned under the Draft Finance Bill aimed at supporting basic product prices to preserve purchasing power, enshrining the social character of the State. “The social character of the State is reflected in continuing to mobilize financial means essential to support basic product price stability and preserve citizen purchasing power,” she stressed, detailing that recent directives from President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune regarding daily tracking of wide consumption product prices and availability hold special importance in guiding sectoral action toward greater anticipation and effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The minister cited, as an example, assigning a 120 billion dinar financial envelope for measures aiming to regulate prices and profit margins for sugar, soybean oil, and green coffee, confirming that “the State continues assuming financial burdens linked to these mechanisms to support price stability for concerned products and ensure supply regularity.”<\/p>\n

Abdellatif also cited a series of measures extending until December 31, 2029, consisting primarily of maintaining a reduced 5% customs duty rate on imports of live cattle and sheep intended for slaughter, as well as fresh, chilled, vacuum-packed red meats, expanding access to encompass live cattle intended for fattening, alongside applying the same rate to imported frozen white meats, with a value-added tax (VAT) exemption.<\/p>\n

The text also provides for extending tax exemptions linked to green coffee imports through VAT and internal consumption tax exemptions, alongside renewing the VAT exemption applied to import and sale operations for pulses\u2014including peas, chickpeas, beans, lentils, fava beans\u2014and rice intended for human consumption.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the draft bill proposes maintaining the VAT exemption regarding sale operations for fresh fruits and vegetables, consumption eggs, broiler chickens, and locally produced turkeys, as well as crude oil and oilcake derived from local oilseed crushing. It also recommends extending measures related to imported crude soybean oil, including customs duty and VAT exemptions.<\/p>\n

These provisions fit within an approach combining tax burden reduction, support for national production, and supply sustainability, capable of consolidating State capacity to curb price fluctuation repercussions, according to explanations provided by the minister.<\/p>\n

Regulation of Intermediary Activities<\/strong>
\nThe minister, mentioning the advance approach of the Commerce Department to cover demand increases during Ramadhan, indicated that her department is preparing regulatory texts regarding intermediary sales activity regulation and profit margin capping while accounting for production and marketing chains, applying President Tebboune’s directives. These include strengthening local daily price and availability monitoring in coordination with provincial governors and local sectoral services, alongside intensifying field inspections to identify dysfunctions, verify causes, and direct interventions. Simultaneously, actions are underway to enhance coordination between the Ministry of the Interior and the High Commissariat for Digitalization to develop a shared digital database to centralize and analyze product availability and price information while implementing an early warning mechanism for abnormal increases.<\/p>\n

This approach also encompasses coordination regarding acquisition mechanisms for local production surpluses, their storage, and destocking when needed, alongside monitoring commercial practices linked to marketing imported products and verifying observed price gaps, specified the sector head. According to the minister, complementarity between field inspections, digital information, and economic analysis will strengthen sectoral intervention capacity in a timely manner, support supply regularity, and contribute to market stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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