Protecting the consumer

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Industry and Commerce Minister Francisco Javier Garcia, quoted in El Caribe newspaper, has said that due to a lack of efficiency in the Institute of Price Stabilization (INESPRE), the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will take over responsibilities and try to find the reasons for increasing prices and put a stop to those increases. Garcia said that his department is launching an initiative and would go out on the streets to determine whether business owners are price gouging, increasing prices of goods when they shouldn't be doing so, and said that he is seeking to protect the public from such actions. Garcia also said that he would provide the President with options that will help define INESPRE's role by the end of November. Garcia made this statement while speaking at the formal opening of the Office for the Free Access of Information at the Juan Pablo Duarte building.

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