In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam’s top clam import markets included the EU, the US, South Korea, Singapore, the UK, and Japan. Among these markets, clam exports to Portugal and Japan decreased, while exports to the remaining markets grew positively. Exports to South Korea increased sharply by 182%.
Vietnam’s largest clam import markets in the EU were Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In the first quarter of this year, only clam exports to Portugal fell slightly by 9%, exports to the remaining markets all grew by double digits, 33%-45%.
In QI/2022, Italy was also Vietnam’s largest single clam import market, with 6.4 million USD, up 45% over the same period last year. Clam exports to Spain reached 6.3 million USD, an increase of 44% compared to the same period.
The EU favored clam products such as clam meat, steamed whole white/brown clams, and processed value-added products such as steamed clams with garlic butter, tomyum seasoned clams.
Inflation and high food prices in the EU have made Vietnamese clams more attractive to customers and importers in the EU. Due to tax incentives from the EVFTA Agreement, Vietnam's clam exports to the EU are expected to grow well this year.
In QI/2022, there were 13 localities exporting clams. In which, Thanh Hoa province, the leading province, accounted for over 24% of clam export turnover, with over 3 million USD, most of which were products exported by HASUVIMEX. The province that ranked second in clam export turnover was Ben Tre with 2.1 million USD, accounting for 16% with 3 exporters including AQUATEX BENTRE, BESEACO and AQUAMARINE.
Nam Dinh province ranked third, accounting for 14%, with a value of 1.8 million USD, mainly clam products of LENGER SEAFOODS VIETNAM COMPANY LIMITED.
Currently, Vietnamese clams have a great advantage regarding prestige and quality, especially clams in Ben Tre have achieved MSC certification. Vietnamese clams are famous for their taste, nutrition and white thick flesh and are favored in many major markets around the world.
Some Vietnam’s clam processing and exporting enterprises have controlled the farming areas, raw material sources, and production processes. To meet the demand of strict export markets, enterprises invested in modern technologies for clam cleaning and processing of fresh, frozen, and canned clams, to ensure the quality of international standards.
Please subscribe to the Report on Vietnam's seafood exports to know information, quarterly seafood import and export data and forecast for export results in 2022.
Compiled by Phuong Linh
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.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In February 2024, the average export price of Vietnamese pangasius to markets increased by 4%, although the volume decreased by 40% compared to the previous month.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) There was a 6% decline in Vietnam's pangasius exports to Brazil in February 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, with the total value reaching 6 million USD.
(vasep.com.vn) In the first two months of 2024, Poland—which ranks as Vietnam's fourth-largest EU supplier of tuna—became a noteworthy market. Vietnam's tuna exports value to Poland increased by 786% in comparison to the same period last year, totaling over $2 million USD and contributing about 2% of the country's overall tuna exports revenue.
Regulations on the protection and sustainable development of aquatic resources, Việt Nam's legitimate rights at sea in accordance with international law and the achievements that the country has carved out to remove the European Union’s “yellow card” will be brought closer to local people.
(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to data from Vietnam Customs, in January 2024, Vietnamese pangasius exports to Germany decreased by 30% compared to last year and reached only nearly 2 million USD.
VASEP - HIỆP HỘI CHẾ BIẾN VÀ XUẤT KHẨU THỦY SẢN VIỆT NAM
Chịu trách nhiệm: Ông Nguyễn Hoài Nam - Phó Tổng thư ký Hiệp hội
Đơn vị vận hành trang tin điện tử: Trung tâm VASEP.PRO
Trưởng Ban Biên tập: Bà Phùng Thị Kim Thu
Giấy phép hoạt động Trang thông tin điện tử tổng hợp số 138/GP-TTĐT, ngày 01/10/2013 của Bộ Thông tin và Truyền thông
Tel: (+84 24) 3.7715055 – (ext.203); email: kimthu@vasep.com.vn
Trụ sở: Số 7 đường Nguyễn Quý Cảnh, Phường An Phú, Quận 2, Tp.Hồ Chí Minh
Tel: (+84) 28.628.10430 - Fax: (+84) 28.628.10437 - Email: vasephcm@vasep.com.vn
VPĐD: số 10, Nguyễn Công Hoan, Ngọc Khánh, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Tel: (+84 24) 3.7715055 - Fax: (+84 24) 37715084 - Email: vasephn@vasep.com.vn