Record high shrimp shipments to US help push Vietnamese export values up 24% through July
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Philippines News Agency] August 14, 2014
In the first seven months of 2014, Vietnam pocketed some 4.2 billion U.S. dollars from shipping seafood to world market, up 24.5 percent year-on-year, according to a recent report by Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Local Bao Cong Thuong (Industry and Trade News), an online newspaper under Vietnam's Industry and Trade on Thursday quoted the report as saying that during seven-month period, the United States remained the largest market for Vietnamese seafood, with an increase of 41.3 percent year-on-year in export revenue.
In January-July period, Vietnam continued to witness growth in export revenue to other major markets including Japan, South Korea and China, with a year-on-year increase of 7.32 percent, 51.33 percent and 35.28 percent, respectively, said MARD...
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