Vietnam's seafood exports have great potential in the Swiss market
Seafood
Switzerland
Vietnam
Published Oct 3, 2022
Tridge summary
According to statistics of the International Trade Center (ITC), Vietnam's seafood market share is accounting for 11.3% of the total import turnover of Switzerland. Vietnam is currently the second largest seafood supplier to Switzerland, after Norway.
Original content
Vietnam's seafood products exported to Switzerland are mainly frozen shrimp and pangasius. The remaining seafood exports include frozen tuna, frozen clams, frozen eel... Of which, frozen shrimp accounted for 80.8%; Frozen pangasius accounted for 17.4% of total seafood export value to Switzerland. According to the Import-Export Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), Switzerland is a potential seafood export market of Vietnam. Although the area and population are not high, Switzerland is a country with a developed economy. Meanwhile, the domestic seafood supply only meets about 12% of the consumption demand, so this market has to depend mainly on imported seafood. Every year, Switzerland imports about 75,000 tons of fish and over 115,000 tons of shrimp. In order to promote seafood exports to the Swiss market, a representative of the Import-Export Department recommended that businesses pay special attention to product quality. As a market that requires very high quality ...
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