Central America: Fuel Prices up to May 20

Price per gallon of regular gasoline: Costa Rica $4.26, Nicaragua $3.89, Honduras $3.72, El Salvador $3.42, Guatemala $3.38 and Panama $3.29.

Monday, May 20, 2019

From the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador statement:

The current reference prices reflect a downward trend, because during the first weeks of May, reserves of gasoline and distillates show minimal reductions, this has allowed prices to be more stable compared to the previous month, since the first half of May gasoline reported a 790,000-barrel decrease, while in April for the first half reported a 10.6-million-barrel reduction. Regarding diesel distillates, during the first fortnight of May a 1.4-million-barrel decrease was reported, while for the first fortnight of April it was 2.5 million barrels, a less marked difference, which affects the price of low-sulfur diesel for the next fortnight.

The pressure generated by the trade war between China and the United States, the world's largest consumers of oil and oil products, responsible for 34% of global oil consumption in the first quarter of 2019, according to data from the IEA, is because the U.S. announced that from May will raise tariffs from 10% to 25% to Chinese products worth 200 billion dollars, a measure already implemented at the end of 2018 and was paralyzed by a truce for both countries to conduct trade negotiations. This generated that the international market of oil and derivatives showed caution and fluctuations in prices, marking a downward trend especially in gasoline.

Dollar prices
Regular
Special
Diesel
Guatemala
3,38
3,53
2,86
El Salvador
3,42
3,63
3,18
Nicaragua
3,89
3,98
3,45
Honduras
3,72
4,08
3,40
Costa Rica
4,26
4,40
3,61
Panama
3,21
3,29
2,87
*Prices taken from Acodeco.gob.pa

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