Oil companies began to sell gasoline at a loss

At the St. Petersburg international Mercantile exchange over the one week (from 13 to 19 April), the wholesale cost of gasoline AI-92 fell by more than 4 rubles (4.2 per ruble), to 35.77 thousand rubles per ton. Such data was announced by the experts “analysis of commodity markets”, RBC reports.

But companies need to take into account the excise tax transfers to the Federal budget for the damper and the mineral extraction tax with VAT. Such costs are of 38.07 thousand rubles per ton.

From this it follows that the company lost 2.3 thousand rubles per ton of mark of AI-92 gasoline.

Such negative statistics associated with a decline in demand for gasoline, according to the expert of the savings Bank Andrey Gromadin. Pandemic coronavirus has reduced to record levels of car traffic in cities. Because of this, manufacturers have to reduce wholesale prices.