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From the KRG crossing borders, a special type of commercial salt is being imported for commercial use but later sent to the market as a normal salt for people to use in their daily foods.  

Every day 15 to 20 tracks import salt from Pshta and Tawela crossing the border into Kurdistan without paying taxes. This salt in the Customs Tariff is identified as Commercial salt, "not for eating".
Based on Draw Media investigations, this salt which is being imported as commercial salt, later in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil will be packaged and sale it in the market for eating.
To make the process of importing the salt easier for some businessmen without paying taxes, the Customs Tariff of the salt has been changed.
Originally there were three different types of salt in the Customs Tariff. (Salt for eating, salt not appropriate for eating and commercial salt), but in the customs tariff, they were changed to only two types and both commercial salt with the salt not good for eating were combined to make customs discounts. 
Currently, in the KRG customs tariff, the salts have been divided into two categories; commercial salt and salt for eating. The first category, the commercial salt, has been exempted from customs duties, the exemptions will not be applied for subjects that use for eating. This means this salt is being imported as a non-food subject, but later will be sent to the market for eating.
Commercial salt which is exempted from customs duties is used in several industrial sectors like oil and tanning animal skins.
When this salt arrives in the Kurdistan region will be distributed to several factories in Sluaymanyah, Sayd Sadiq, and Erbil. These factories package the salt and send it to market.
Draw Media has been informed that a custom inspection team in Sulaymaniyah has sent samples of this salt for inspection in a hospital, and none of them passed the inspection test. The results show that the salt is not appropriate for eating, yet the customs and border authorities do not want to prevent this illegal importation which puts public health at risk.
The health sources mention that this salt is not for eating because making serious problems for human health.
By importing this type of salt illegally, KRG is losing approximately 360 million IQD every month, for a group of businessmen backed by the major parties.