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The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has raised the price of gold jewellery, including VAT, by up to Tk 2,216 per bhori. The organisation announced the increase in gold prices in the domestic market in a notice on Friday (9 October). The new prices took effect from 10am that day. Gold will be sold at the same prices today, Saturday, as well.
BAJUS said in the notice that the decision to set the new prices was taken this morning at a meeting of its standing committee on pricing and price monitoring.
Under the new rates, the price of the best quality, that is 22-carat, gold jewellery has been set at Tk 231,297 per bhori (11.664 grams), including VAT. Yesterday the price was Tk 229,081.
The new price of 21-carat gold is Tk 220,916 per bhori. From now on, 18-carat gold will be sold at Tk 189,715 per bhori. And the new price of gold of the traditional method is Tk 154,956 per bhori.
Although the price of gold has been reduced, there has been no change in the price of silver. A bhori of 22-carat silver costs Tk 4,316. Silver of 21 carats is Tk 4,141 per bhori, 18-carat silver Tk 3,558 per bhori and silver of the traditional method Tk 2,683 per bhori.
