The main purpose of the current work is to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using a mechanism which intervenes in domestic relative prices of tradable intermediate goods. Such a mechanism can be implemented by a combination of taxes and subsidies to imports and exports of tradable intermediate goods, with rates that vary over time. This intervention performs as an auxiliary stabilization instrument that is managed in a coordinated fashion with more conventional ones, such as the nominal interest rate. In the end this work will look into the matters of (i) investigating the circumstances under which the intervention in international commodity prices, together with the nominal interest rate, might help in the task of stabilizing the economy; (ii) determining the optimal response of the available instruments to the shocks that hit the economy; and (iii) measuring the welfare consequences of the availability of this auxiliary stabilization instrument.