Vietnams shrimp export rises slightly in 9 months
Hanoi - Vietnam’s shrimp export turnover hit 2.8 billion USD in the first nine months of 2021, up 2.7 percent year-on-year, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported.
The US remained the biggest buyer of Vietnamese shrimp products in the reviewed period, with 775 million USD in export value, 22.2 percent higher than that of the same period last year. Vietnam is the fourth largest shrimp supplier in volume and the fifth in value for the US market.
It was followed by Japan, the European Union (EU), Hong Kong (China) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) with respective values of 413 million USD, 408 million USD, 298 million USD and 261 million USD.
White-leg shrimp is the main export product of Vietnam's shrimp industry, contributing 2.1 billion USD to the total turnover in Jan – September.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Import-Export Agency, thanks to great efforts of southern localities to control the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s shrimp export has gradually recovered since October.
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