Fuel prices in Jordan for the month of March 2023

The Follow-up Committee on Fuel Prices in Jordan, the prices of gasoline with all its derivatives, and the price of diesel during the month of March, including the added tax of 5%, also announced the Petroleum Derivatives Pricing Committee, the prices of gasoline in Jordan during the month of March 2023, as the price of kerosene is fixed, and the price of diesel is reduced by 10 fils. , which is next:

• The price of 90-octane gasoline and 95-octane gasoline are fixed.
• The price of a liter of octane 90 petrol is fixed at 945 fils.
• And fixing the price of a liter of octane 95 petrol at 1185 fils.
• And the price of diesel was reduced from 820 fils to 810 fils.
• And fixing the price of kerosene at 620 fils.
• Fixing the price of a domestic gas cylinder (liquefied petroleum gas) at 7 dinars.

* (1000 fils is equivalent to a Jordanian dinar = 1.41 US dollars)

The Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II, issued orders to the government to freeze the tax on kerosene, which is considered one of the most consumed types of fuel in the Kingdom of Jordan, especially in the winter season, in order to reduce the price of fuel in Jordan for citizens.

Bishr Al-Khasawneh, the Jordanian Prime Minister, refused to reduce the prices of gasoline in Jordan, especially gasoline and diesel, and to cancel the added tax, as he stressed that his government will reflect the prices of oil derivatives at the international price, down or up.

The rise in fuel prices in Jordan led to the anger of citizens, demanding the government to put an end to this rise, and the peak of this rise was last December, which led to strikes in the workplace, and the Minister of Finance, Muhammad Al-Issis, previously indicated during his statements before the Jordanian Parliament at the end of In 2022, fixing the price of fuel will bear the state a budget estimated at about 505 million dinars, equivalent to 712 million dollars.