Japan spent 53 million USD to buy Vietnamese crab

Sharing at the conference on disseminating export standards to Japan on the afternoon of September 29, Mr. Nguyen Hoai Nam, Deputy Secretary General of the Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), said that the Japanese market is increasingly love Vietnamese seafood. In the context of economic decline, inflation, and reduced consumer demand, seafood exports to this country have little disturbance. According to Mr. Nam, in the first 8 months of the year, Japan spent nearly 1 billion USD to import Vietnamese seafood. "This number is down 13.5% year-on-year, but is only half the average decrease from other countries," he said. Currently, the US, China and Japan are the three largest markets, all importing Vietnamese seafood exceeding the 1 billion USD mark. Among the 15 groups of seafood products exported to Japan, there are 5 groups (scada fish, pollock, mackerel, mackerel, herring) growing positively with turnover increasing by 6-50% over the same period in 2022. ...