(seafood.vasep.com.vn) According to the statistics of Vietnam customs, Vietnam surimi exports in July 2016 gained US$20.6 million, down 12.9% year on year. The figure in the first 7 months of the year estimated at US$135.6 million, down 16.6% from the same period last year.

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) In the first 6 months of 2016, Vietnam surimi exports reached over US$115 million, down 17% year on year.

In QIII/2015, surimi exports from Vietnam valued US$78.782 million, down 4.4% year on year. Through September, surimi exports reached US$217,8 million, up 5.7% year on year.

(vasep.com.vn) Accounted for 12.4% of Vietnam's total surimi exports, Japan is the third largest exporting market, after South Korea and ASEAN.

(vasep.com.vn) Maintaining its proportion of over 30% in surimi exports from Vietnam, South Korea has been Vietnam's biggest market for this item and potentials are still seen.

(vasep.com.vn) Surimi exports in February 2015 worth US$ 14.2 million, up 22.4% year on year but down 45.3% month on month. Cumulative surimi exports in 2015 reached over US$ 40 million, up 14.1% year on year. This year, surimi exports from Vietnam to major markets grew well, except for EU and Taiwan. Exports to top 8 markets accounted for 98.6% of total exports from Vietnam, down from 96.9% of last year. Russia and China were markets with strongest growth, at 68.2% and 40.7%, respectively. Meanwhile South Korea, ASEAN and Japan are top surimi export markets.

(vasep.com.vn) Total export value in 9 months reached over US$ 206 million, up nearly 31% year on year. It is the surge in exports to key markets such as China, Taiwan and Russia, especially to Russia (particularly upped 118% year on year), that boosted the export value of this commodity.

(vasep.com.vn) Total export value in 9 months reached over US$ 206 million, up nearly 31% year on year. It is the surge in exports to key markets such as China, Taiwan and Russia, especially to Russia (particularly upped 118% year on year), that boosted the export value of this commodity.

(vasep.com.vn) According to source from GEPIMEX 404, in August 8/2014, YTD exports were over 2,922 MT of seafood, worth US$ 5.42 million. The company exported its products to South Korea, Belgium, Hong Kong, Uruguay, Guam, Republic, Colombia, ASEAN, Japan and other countries.

(vasep.com.vn) In the wake of global economic turmoil, Vietnam’s fish paste and surimi exports to the two main markets, Japan and EU, are encountering a lot of bottlenecks.

The value of US surimi exports fell by 5 percent to$167.8 million (€126 million) in the first half ofthe year over the same period last year, despite a 4.9 percent increase in export volumes to 73,486 metric tons.

(vasep.com.vn) In July 2013, Vietnam surimi exports reaped over US$18 million, registering a slump of 24.9 percent compared to the same time of 2012, driving exports in Jan-Jul 2013 up to US$114 million (-23.5 percent).

This year’s spike in US pollock surimi exports to South Korea do not reflect higher sales to the country, but are a sign of delayed sales to Japan due to the slow surimi market, said Pascal Guenneugues, president of Future Seafood Europe.

Currently surimi processing plant

Together with other key seafood items of Viet Nam such as Pangasius, shrimp and squid, the fish paste and surimi have become an important export earner of the country in 2011.