(vasep.com.vn) Despite slight increase in domestic fish production, Vietnam processors still raised importing raw material for outsourcing, processing and exporting, meeting orders from importers.
In 2013, Vietnam imported fish from 83 suppliers with the value of US$720 million, up 10.2 percent year on year. In which fish imports from India made up 24 percent, Taiwan took 10.5 percent, ASEAN with 8.7 percent , EU 8.2 percent, Japan 8 percent, Norway 6.5 percent, South Korea 4 percent and the U.S. 5 percent and the remaining was imported from others.
In 2013, marine finfish, shrimp and tuna was main imported items made up nearly 91 percent of the total, meeting demand for outsourcing, processing and exporting.
In the first 8 months of 2014, fish imports into Vietnam reached US$709 million in which shrimp made up the largest proportion of 48 percent with the value of US$337 million; tuna imports reached US$126 million with the proportion of 18 percent, marine finfish imports with US$193 million, making up 27 percent. India was the largest supplier of mainly shrimp, tuna with the value of US$248 million, making up 35 percent of total fish imports into Vietnam. It was followed by Taiwan – the important supplier of skipjack tuna with the value of US$48 million, occupying 7 percent. Norway supplied US$40 million of fish to Vietnam, occupying 5.6 percent.
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