EU cuts tuna imports

The decline in tuna fillet imports during this period was significant (-35 percent to 17,250 tonnes) due to unsold stocks and a fall in consumer disposable income. Among leading markets, imports remained stable in Italy at 3,305 tons (+3.8 percent), but fell in Spain (-50 percent at 3,910 tons), France (-35.6 at 3,085 tons), Kingdom the Netherlands (39 percent at 1,150 tons) and Germany (-30.7 percent at 770 tons). Outside the EU region, imports of frozen tuna fillets in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and ...