Pricing
The market freely determines commodity prices without government involvement with the exception of staple commodities such as gasoline, vegetable oil, sugar, subsidized flour and medicines. In 2003, Morocco implemented a new tariff system for grains (barley, wheat and corn) that resulted in a significant increase in tariffs for bread wheat. The new tariffs supplemented the 1998 system that is still applicable for oilseeds and sugar. Any measure that threatens to raise the price of bread causes great public outcry. As a result, the government managed to raise the price of bread by only 10 centimes in 2004 and has not raised it since.