Vietnam: China raised trade barriers to import pangasius - VASEP

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said that from the second quarter, the value of pangasius exports to China - Hong Kong market, which is the largest pangasius market of Vietnamese enterprises. fell 0.8-11.4% consecutively over the same period last year. The reason is that since the end of May, Zhanjiang - one of China's major transshipment hubs has announced to stop importing frozen foods from major seafood exporting countries including India, Vietnam, and Thailand. 8 other Asian countries from June 20 to July 15 due to many cities such as Guangzhou, Foshan, Shenzhen, Zhanjiang... showing signs of infection and spread of Covid-19. According to VASEP, in the first half of this year, China's demand for importing pangasius from Vietnam is still large, but the Government of this country still has many policies to reduce the source of imported seafood from other countries. Not only pangasius, other aquatic products such as white fish, Norwegian salmon, ...