Abuses with sale of armor in Kosovo

Consumers have begun to appeal to this uncontrolled rise in prices not only of armor but also of certain products and construction materials.

State mechanisms seem to have not yet gone out on the ground to control this price hikes, even though in the international benzen the price of iron occasionally has a discount, while in the formal market it continues to sell at high prices in Kosovo.

“They are massively abusing not only the price of armor but also any other type of building material. The distribution companies are selling materials at high prices”, a construction consumer said.info.

Kosovo does not represent a high-intensity capital country that could cover inter-sectorial shortcomings for the current crises: pandemic and war in Ukraine. Under such circumstances as consumer protection concept is of particular importance, but it should be considered an economic category, not something moral or human right. Such protection of consumers from abuses with rising prices is an example in strengthening economies through imposing a fair competition on the local market. When there is fair competition, it naturally comes to the expression of the establishment of the quality of the products and services supply”, Nijazi Shala said the head of the customer protection department at the Ministry of Industry, Intervention and Trade.

The price hikes have also affected the construction sector greatly.

This cost has influenced many companies to stop their jobs, and others are waiting to stop it because at this price of metal, they say that there is no account for the work, writes the Ebiz newspaper.

Some builders have told the newspaper that the market has undergone so many movements that all prices have changed.

The situation becomes even more difficult, they say, as contractual jobs have been arranged at old prices, while with this rise they cannot be concluded according to those agreements.