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The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has raised the price of gold in the domestic market. The price of gold jewellery, including VAT, has gone up by a maximum of Tk 2,216 per bhori. BAJUS gave this information in a notification on Friday (9 October). The new price took effect from 10:00am that day, and gold will be sold at the same price today, Sunday, as well.
The BAJUS notification said the decision to set the new price was taken on Friday morning at a meeting of the organisation’s Standing Committee on Pricing and Price Monitoring.
According to the new price, the price of the best quality, that is 22-carat, gold jewellery per bhori (11.664 grams) has now been set at Tk 231,297 including VAT. Yesterday this price was Tk 229,081.
For 21-carat, the new price of gold per bhori has been fixed at Tk 220,916. From now on, 18-carat gold will be sold at Tk 189,715 per bhori, while the new price of gold of the traditional method is Tk 154,956 per bhori.
Although the price of gold has been reduced, the price of silver remains unchanged. The price of one bhori of 22-carat silver is Tk 4,316. Besides this, 21-carat silver is Tk 4,141 per bhori, 18-carat Tk 3,558, and the price of silver of the traditional method is Tk 2,683 per bhori.
