Criteria for price gouging during the epidemic

Different provisions for the mask price difference between purchase and sale, whether the mask price constitutes price gouging does not have a unified definition of the standard. For example, the Hubei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau stipulates: public **** health response during the first level, and epidemic-related medical commodities, protection and disinfection of commodities are not allowed to increase the price; sold goods without reference price, the purchase and sale of the difference in price of more than 15%, constituting price gouging behavior. Anyone who violates the provisions of the State on market operation and price management during the period of prevention and control of sudden outbreaks of infectious disease and other disasters by inflating prices and profiteering, thereby seriously disrupting the market order, and whose proceeds of violation of the law are in a larger amount or who is guilty of the crime of unlawful business operation in accordance with the provisions of Article 225(4) of the Criminal Law, shall be given a heavier punishment according to the law. Article 6 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of the Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Obstruction of the Prevention and Control of Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases and Other Disasters