Vietnam has earned US$380 million from seafood exports in May, raising five-month export revenues to US$1.63 billion, up 18% on-year, the General Statistics Office estimated. Meanwhile, the country spent US$124 million on imports of aquatic products in the period, up 9.4% compared to the same period of last year.
Vietnamese firms expect to export more seafood to the U.S. where aquatic products are scare due to BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that seriously polluted the environment, state media reported on May 21. Demand for shrimp in the U.S. is increasing sharply as the oil spill made bad impacts on local fishing [...]
Vietnam earned 215 million USD from seafood exports to the United States in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 26.3 percent. According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Processors and Exporters, the US imports tra fish and catfish from 12 countries across the world, and Vietnam is the largest exporter [...]
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced that the average anti-dumping tariff applied to shrimp products exported by 29 Vietnamese companies will decrease from 4.57 percent to 2.89 percent. The anti-dumping duty reduction result from the fourth administrative review conducted by the DOC from February 1, 2008 to January 31, 2009. The Vietnam Association [...]
First Vietnam’s tra fish, and now frozen shrimp have enjoyed a reduction in anti-dumping duties after the US administration’s review. Nguyen Huu Dung of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) says that he can see the signs of US willingness to cooperate rather than put up barriers to Vietnam’s seafood exports. Dung, [...]
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