This result contributes to the seafood industry’s export turnover of $11 billion in 2022
Vietnam’s tuna exports reached the target of $1 billion in 2022, up by 34 per cent from a year ago. This is also the first time the industry’s tuna exports have reached an export value of $ billion, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep). This result contributes to the seafood industry’s export turnover of $11 billion in 2022.
Vietnam’s tuna products have been exported to 99 markets around the world. Among them, the US, the European Union (EU), the countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Israel, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the Philippines and Egypt are Vietnam’s largest tuna importers, accounting for 92 per cent of total export value.
Notably, in the CPTPP market, exports to Japan grew continuously in the last quarter of 2022.
In December alone, tuna exports to Japan increased by 131 per cent over the same period last year, contributing to bringing Vietnam’s tuna to the CPTPP market to nearly $136 million, up 48 per cent compared to 2021.
In the whole year of 2022, Vietnam’s tuna exports to the CPTPP market reached nearly $136 million, up 48 per cent compared to 2021.
The EU, Germany, Spain and Belgium were the three largest importers of Vietnamese tuna in the EU last year. Particularly in December 2022, tuna exports to Germany and Spain are increasing gallopingly at 3 digits, 161 per cent and 117 per cent, respectively.
