Vietnam’s tra fish exports to Japan and India are expected to increase, say seafood experts.
Despite Vietnam’s modest revenue from exporting tra fish to Japan, growing imports in this market creates an opportunity for Vietnamese
seafood companies to penetrate the country.
At the Japan 2013
International Food and Beverage Exhibition Foodex last month, Vietnamese
tra fish drew a lot of attention from Japanese consumers. Crispy tra
fillet sticks were the most popular Vietnamese seafood dish on offer.
Seafood companies evaluated that processed tra fish products will
be able to enter the market with national and large-scale trade
promotion programmes for the product in Japan.
According
to the Vietnamese Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers
(VASEP), Japan has increased its import of tra fish while reducing
other seafood products.
Since the beginning of this year,
Vietnam has exported more than 550,000 USD of tra fish to Japan, a
year-on-year increase of 2.7 percent.
Tra fish exports to
India also saw a rise of 45 percent to 2.7 million USD over the same
period last year, valued at 2.7 million USD. The product is mainly sold
at seafood shops and supermarkets in India.-VNA