{"id":8446,"date":"2025-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/fallout-deepens-indias-pink-salt-market-grinds-to-a-halt\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:00:00","slug":"fallout-deepens-indias-pink-salt-market-grinds-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/salt-blog\/fallout-deepens-indias-pink-salt-market-grinds-to-a-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout Deepens: India\u2019s Pink Salt Market Grinds to a Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The India\u2013Pakistan trade ban has now brought the Himalayan pink salt industry in India to a near standstill. Importers who previously sold over 2,000 tonnes quarterly have seen operations fully freeze following New Delhi\u2019s move to block not just direct but all third-country re-routed imports from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>With Pakistani salt supply cut, wholesale prices in cities like Kolkata have surged from \u20b950\/kg to as high as \u20b980\/kg. Panic buying continues in northern and eastern India, especially with pink salt&#8217;s cultural and religious importance during fasting seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistani exporters are turning toward direct value-added exports to global buyers, seeking to shed reliance on uncredited Indian intermediaries. This trade breakdown may permanently reshape sourcing routes and pricing structures in the regional rock salt economy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The India\u2013Pakistan trade ban has now brought the Himalayan pink salt industry in India to a near standstill. Importers who previously sold over 2,000 tonnes quarterly have seen operations fully freeze following New Delhi\u2019s move to block not just direct but all third-country re-routed imports from Pakistan. With Pakistani salt supply cut, wholesale prices in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}