Ecuador: China ramps up tuna supplies to EU

This is due to the fact that the European bloc is increasingly inclined to buy tuna from Chinese suppliers, although there is no trade agreement with them. Between 2015 and 2022, Ecuador's share of this market declined from 32% to 26%, while China's share rapidly increased from 9% to 24%. Europe's purchasing policy of increasing its autonomous quota every two years (importing tuna from other countries without an agreement) worries the Ecuadorian industry because, as Bruno Leone, president of the National Chamber of Fisheries (CNP), explains, partially undermines the tariff incentives that Ecuador and the European Union materialized in a trade agreement signed in 2017. The Ecuadorian sector planned to bring this issue up for discussion, taking advantage of a visit to the country by the European Commission, which is seeking to test the efforts that Ecuador is making to improve its production practices and combat illegal fishing. The supply of tuna loin and canned fish is the largest ...