Retail prices in Italy are indirectly affected by the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine . At the expense of some consumer goods such as pasta, bread and seed oil.
The alarm is raised by various consumer associations, despite the fact that the Observatory for Public Accounts (headed by Carlo Cottarelli) stressed that even before the war the prices of raw materials had already risen.
Assoutenti, on the basis of the latest data provided by Mise, has drawn up the ranking of the cities in which the retail price lists of the three products in question have undergone the heaviest increases.
The black jersey of the increases goes to sunflower oil, which between January and March 2022 records price increases of over 40% in Verona and Lodi, between 20% and 25% in Mantua, Cremona, Sassari , Novara and Vercelli, and between 10% and 20% in 19 Italian provinces.
The cause is due to the fact that Ukraine and Russia together account for 80% of world exports of sunflower oil, and the blockade of imports is affecting consumer prices.
The price lists of pasta are also growing: in Messina in just two months it increased by 13%, in Venice by 11%, and in general 12 cities recorded increases even higher than the annual rate of inflation.
As far as bread is concerned, things are no better: in Cremona - again between January and March - the price per kilo increases by 12.2%, in Cosenza by 8.7%, and increases of over 6% are recorded in Terni, Belluno. , Lecco, Lodi.
"At the beginning of the conflict we denounced the risk of price increases precisely for those products made with raw materials of which Russia and Ukraine are the main exporters - comments Furio Truzzi, president of Assoutenti - The official numbers today prove us right: beyond the records recorded by some provinces, the increases in the prices of bread, pasta and seed oil are generalized and affect all cities. In this context, the risk of speculation on consumers' skin is very high: for this reason we will send our report to Mr Prices, so that investigate the disproportionate increases in price lists that in just two months have hit families ".
