Tra Fish among US’s top ten popular seafood products

Tra fish has become one of the US’s top ten popular seafood products in 2009 for the first time, according to the Vietnamese Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).

In the annual list of the 10 most popular seafood’s, released by the US’s National Fisheries Institute on September 9, tra fish ranked the 10th .

Luong Le Phuong, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development said that as tra fish is one of Vietnam’s major exports, the ministry has introduced measures to strictly control its quality throughout the stages from farming to processing and marketing.

According to VASEP, in the first seven months of this year, Vietnamese seafood exports to the US reached 435 million USD, of which tra fish accounted for 80.8 million USD, up 14% from the same period last year, with the volume reaching over 26,000 tonnes.

However, the US’s Department of Commerce has made a decision on anti-dumping tax based on the administrative review of tra fish imports from Vietnam between August 2008 and July 2009, resulting in Vietnamese seafood exporters facing higher tariffs.

Nguyen Huu Dung, the Deputy Chairman of VASEP said that the unreasonable tariffs have made many Vietnamese businesses suffer heavy losses and tra fish exports to the US will find it harder in the near future. – Vietnam+

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Posted by VBN on Sep 14 2010. Filed under Sea food. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry