61. Independent of an organisation that is trying to control rubber prices that will only be to the advantage of the non-producing countries, he said. 62. Jurors found that U.S. Tobacco monopolized the market by controlling prices or excluding competition or both. 63. Liquid fuels were among the few remaining groups of commodities whose prices are controlled by the government. 64. Most enterprises in this former Soviet republic remain in state hands and the government controls most prices. 65. Most food items in Syria are state subsidized, and prices are controlled by the government. 66. Norway, a North Sea producer, is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which tries to control prices. 67. Provisions include nationalizing major industries, controlling prices, and fixing currency exchange rates. 68. Responding to such complaints the government last Thursday announced new measures to control the price of rice under a wider economic reform plan sponsored by the International Monetary Fund. 69. Separately, Minister of Agriculture Sjarifudin Baharsjah said yesterday the export ban was inevitable, as the current system could not control local prices. 70. Some smaller chicken retailers have accused the wholesalers at the market of controlling the prices of chickens and they add they cannot get enough chickens to meet consumer demand. |