Himalayan pink salt with Pakistan as its main country of origin is one of the feature products for CIIE this year.
Pakistan possesses one of the world’s largest salt deposits stretching over 209 km lying in areas between the eastern district of Jhelum and northwestern Kohat district. The country is also home to the second-largest salt mine in the world, the Khewra Salt Mine in Jhelum.
According to officials from the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation, Pakistan’s annual export of salt totals around 400,000 tons.
In an effort to curb the unauthorized use of Pakistan’s indigenous products by other countries, Pakistan has announced to register its pink salt as the Geographical Indications (GI).
According to General Administration of Customs of China, Pakistani Himalayan pink salt to China reached $4,968,223 in 2021 and $5,747,492 in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 15.68 percent, which shows the gradually expanding market and promising prospects of pink salt exports to China.
In the first half of this year, Pakistani Himalayan pink salt to China reached $2,694,493, a slight decrease of 5 percent compared with $2,839,582 during the same period of last year.
