Hong Kong proposed new regulation on import control of aquatic products
(VASEPNews) On 15th February 2012, Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has sent letter to Trade Service, under Consulate General of Vietnam in Hong Kong to announce its proposed regulation on import control on aquatic products.
The new proposal is to require each consignment of imported live or unprocessed aquatic products to be accompanied by a health certificate issued by the health authorities of the place of origin upon the implementation of the upcoming proposed legislation on import control of aquatic products.
Hong Kong is the importer of all five key seafood items of Vietnam, including shrimp, pangasius, cephalopods, bivalve mollusk and tuna. Export to this market represented 1.94 percent of Vietnam total export revenue in 2011.