He managed to break the international coffee monopoly, " the coffee conference ", a strictly controlled pricing cartel for the transportation of coffee to Europe.
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Antony, whose ministry controlled the supply of sugar to government-owned shops that sell basic commodities at controlled prices, had recommended import of sugar last year.
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He said farmers produce only as much as their families need because government-controlled prices are so low that production for sale is not worth the effort.
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Apkindo, as the cartel is known, controlled prices, distribution and quotas on Indonesian plywood, a multibillion dollar industry and the country's most lucrative export after oil.
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Yesterday, Abdul Rahman filed an ex-parte application in the Ipoh High Court seeking an order compelling the ministry to enforce the controlled price of cooking gas.
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State-controlled prices had to give way to market calculations and hard currencies replaced the communist invention, the " transferable ruble, " that existed only on paper.
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Not only were sales strong, but merchants reported that they kept inventories tight and controlled price cutting so that fourth-quarter earnings would be robust as well.
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Today, we've controlled prices and liberalized the economy, but the question is, what next ? " said Louis Kasekende, a spokesman for the Bank of Uganda.
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Laborers were working with low wages to increase the price competitiveness for the export-oriented economy plan, and farmers were in near poverty as the government controlled prices.
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For the second time this year, sugar planters and millers are demanding that the government raise the controlled price of the commodity, a local newspaper reported Saturday.
