2009 for the first time, according to the Vietnamese Association of
Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP).
n its annual list of the 10 most popular seafood’s, released by the US’s
National Fisheries Institute on September 9, tra fish ranked 10 th .
Luong Le Phuong, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture
and Rural Development said that as tra fish is one of Vietnam’s major
exports, the ministry has introduced measures to strictly control its
quality throughout the stages from farming to processing and marketing.
According to VASEP, in the first seven months of
this year, Vietnamese seafood exports to the US reached 435 million USD,
of which tra fish accounted for 80.8 million USD, up 14 percent from
the same period last year, with the volume reaching over 26,000 tonnes.
However, the US’s Department of Commerce has made a
decision on anti-dumping tax based on the administrative review of tra
fish imports from Vietnam between August 2008 and July 2009, resulting
in Vietnamese seafood exporters facing higher tariffs.
Nguyen Huu Dung, the Deputy Chairman of VASEP said that the
unreasonable tariffs have made many Vietnamese businesses suffer heavy
losses and tra fish exports to the US will find it harder in the near
future./.
