Vietnamese seafood gains firm foothold in US
(VOV) - Vietnam earned more than US$15.2 billion from 2.22 million tonnes of seafood exported to the US market in the first 11 months of last year.
The figure accounted for more than 7 percent of the US market’s total seafood import volume worth US$16.8 billion in 2012, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
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Vietnam’s key export items to the US included shrimp, and tra and basa fish. The volume of tra and basa fish shows a year-on year increase of 17 percent while that of catfish coming from other countries is on decline.
The US imports seafood from 130 countries around the world. Among them Vietnam ranks fifth after China, Canada, Thailand and Indonesia.