1. Article 225 of the Criminal Law stipulates: (1) dealing in monopoly commodities, franchised commodities or other commodities whose trading is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission; (2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations; (three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.

2. Sentencing standard: if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated. Three. Provisions of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on the Standards for Criminal Cases under the Jurisdiction of Public Security Organs 20 10 (II) In order to protect citizens' health and maintain the order of the socialist market economy, according to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, several issues concerning the specific application of the law in handling criminal cases of illegal buying and selling of salt are explained as follows: Article 1 Whoever illegally produces, stores, transports or sells salt in violation of state regulations on salt management and disrupts the market order shall be subject to the Criminal Law. Article 2 Whoever engages in illegal salt trading under any of the following circumstances shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law: (1) The amount of illegal salt trading is more than 20 tons; (2) Having been given administrative punishment for illegally operating salt for more than two times, and the amount of illegally operating salt is more than ten tons.