Quality standards imposed on salt imports

The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Finance to work on quality, safety and hygiene standards for imported salt.

He also asked the above ministries to curb cheating on the importation of salt, and to propose ways of adjusting import taxes on salt that is imported beyond the legal set quota.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade set the 2010 national customs quota for salt imports at 260,000 tonnes. To date, the Ministry of Finance has allocated quotas totalling 140,000 tonnes to different businesses.

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