MoIT Approves Salt Imports
The Ministry of Industry and Trade allowed domestic companies to import 50,000 tons of high-quality salt for use in chemical production.
This year's second batch of imported salt, which aims at mediating raw material shortages in chemical companies, meets a portion of the 2011 import quota, the ministry said.
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development statistics show that Vietnam consumes over one million ton of salt each year.
While the country is able to meet the demand in terms of quantity, its domestic salt industry can not produce the quality required by the medical sector and other industries.
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