Over the 9 months of this year, starting in March, pangasius exports to Japan continuously decreased. It was not until September that pangasius exports to Japan returned to positive growth.
By the end of September 2023, Japan consumed mainly frozen pangasius fillets (HScode 0304) (except fish cakes and surimi products) with 21 million USD, down 19% over the same period last year, accounting for 91% of total exports of pangasius products to this market. Following are processed pangasius products (HScode 16) and live/fresh/frozen/dried pangasius (HScode 03) (except HScode 0304) which reached 2 million USD, accounting for 6% and 1 million USD, accounting for 3% respectively.
Vietnam is considered as a country with good supply capacity for the Japanese market as it enjoys many tariff incentives in free trade agreements (FTAs) along with the number of people coming from Asian countries living and working in Japan is gradually increasing to 10 million people.
Japan's nuclear wastewater discharges from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the sea may reduce domestic consumers’ seafood consumption and increase attention to imported seafood products. Japan’s increased pangasius import from Vietnam in September 2023 is a positive sign in the current world’s complicated and unpredictable economy.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) NAVICO has announced that it has closed the value chain for pangasius fish by ensuring 100% self-sufficiency in feed for aquaculture and raw fish production, creating favorable conditions for a breakthrough in this year's business results.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) On April 23, 2024, the 30th Global Seafood Exhibition opened at the Fira Gran Via Exhibition Center in Barcelona, Spain. Many seafood processing and exporting units from Vietnam participated in the exhibition. At this year's exhibition, deep-processed seafood products continued to attract significant attention and preference from a large number of participants.
(vasep.com.vn) Through the first quarter of the year, in a context where the shrimp industry still faced many risks, shrimp exporting enterprises still showed efforts and determination in production and business.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam's shrimp exports reached over 686 million USD, an increase of 14% over the same period in 2023.
Having identified its weakness in 2023, entering the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam's shrimp industry has undergone a clear change, reflected through increases in exports to major markets.
It is necessary to develop more detailed and consistent regulations on seafood production for export in line with the implementation of solutions towards sustainable and responsible fishing practices.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) After increasing to the highest level in 2022, Canada's tuna imports in 2023 dropped to the lowest level in the past 10 years, reaching 35 thousand tons, down 24% over the year. Canada is currently one of the 15 largest tuna import markets in the world.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) Chile, one of the countries participating in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has tended to increase tuna imports from Vietnam in the past 3 years. According to statistics from Vietnam Customs, this South American country imported nearly 3 million USD of tuna products from Vietnam in the first 2 months of 2024, an increase of 58% over the same period in 2023.
Economic and social development activities, overexploitation, pollution, diseases, and climate change have adversely affected the ecological environment, leading to a severe decline or the extinction of many precious indigenous aquatic species.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) The prices of pangasius fingerlings and raw pangasius in ponds fell in March, following steady increases in the first two months of this year.
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