The top import markets of Vietnamese fish cake and surimi include ASEAN, China, Japan and EU respectively. Vietnam's fish and surimi exports to ASEAN in the first four months of this year reached US $ 25.4 million, down 19.2% over the same period last year.
Export of this item to China reached US $ 14.8 million, up 37% over the same period last year. China is the only market among the main markets to increase imports of fish and surimi from Vietnam in the first four months of this year. The growth of export of surimi and surimi to China showed that this market increased the demand for affordable, ready-to-cook and surimi-based products such as surimi and surimi in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic. Vietnam mainly exports frozen fish cake products using refined sugar, frozen ground fish meat to China with an average price of about US $ 1.2 - 2.9 / kg.
In the first four months of this year, Vietnam's crab exports reached 44.5 million USD, up 39.8% over the same period last year. Vietnam's top import markets for crabs include China, the US, Japan and the EU, respectively.
From the 4 th position in Vietnam imports crabs in the first 4 months of 2019, in the first 4 months of this year, China rose to the leading position in importing crabs in Vietnam. Although in the context of the Covid epidemic, China still has a sudden increase in imports of this item from Vietnam. Export of this item to China in the first 4 months of this year reached more than 13 million USD, up nearly 394% over the same period last year.
Among the top 4 markets for Vietnam's crab imports, Vietnam's crab exports to Japan also grew well by 37.4% to US $ 10.3 million in the first four months of this year. While exporting this product to the US and EU decreased by 18.3% and 17% respectively.
