Recently, the General Department of Customs of China has posted an announcement that the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad) reviewed and sent back the list of 665 Vietnamese seafood enterprises which are eligible to export to the Chinese market. Accordingly, Nafiqad has proposed to remove 15 enterprises from the list of 680 enterprises previously eligible for export to China, as these enterprises have now been dissolved.

Below is a list of 15 enterprises that were dissolved and China has removed them from the list of enterprises

Source: Vasep Vietnam

Vietnam shrimp exports in the first six months of 2019 reached US$1.4 billion, down 12% compared to the same period of 2018. Raw material shrimp price decreased, export prices has not increased, import demand went down from the main markets and fierce competition from India, Ecuador were the main factors that makes Vietnam shrimp exports could not increase.

In the first half of 2019, in the structure of shrimp products exports, whiteleg shrimp accounted for 66.8%, black tiger shrimp accounted for 22.6% and the rest

Cephalopod exports in the first 6 months of this year reached US$288.6 million, down 3.3% compared to the same period in 2018. Exports to major markets such as South Korea, Japan, and the US increased slightly, but exports to other main markets such as EU, ASEAN, and China fell sharply.

In the first six months of this year, Vietnamese cephalopod exports only increased in the two months (January and March), and fell in the other months. In June, the export of Vietnamese cephalopod decreased by 2 figures

Although pangasius exports to the German market decreased following the general trend of the EU region for more than 10 years from 2008 to 2018, but in recent years, especially in the first 5 months of 2019, the export value of pangasius to the German market continued to rose. Particularly in May, 2019, pangasius export value to this market hiked up: 144,7% compare to the same period in 2018. By the end of May, 2019, the export value of Vietnamese pangasius exported to Germany reached US$14.7 million,

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