Vietnam Applies Quotas on Salt and Tobacco Imports
The Ministry of Trade has applied import quotas on salt and tobacco materials this year, according to a recent decision made by the ministry.
Under the decision, fixed import quotas on salt and tobacco materials are 200,000 tons and 38,204 tons, respectively.
To reduce imports of industrial salt and intensify export of salt for civil use, Vietnam has been developing salt production in coastal central and southeast regions, the report said.
It is also enhancing industrial salt fields in the central region, to turn out 1.5 million tons of salt in 2010.
Vietnam imported 100,000 tons of salt for industrial production in 2003, mainly from Australia and India, according to the country's state-owned Vietnam Salt Corporation.
Vietnam's biggest cigarette producer, state-owned Vietnam Tobacco Corporation, sold nearly 2.6 million packs last year, a year-on-year rise of 6.8 per cent.
Vietnam Economic Times
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