Seafood Trade Matters
The latest developments in International Seafood Trade & Market Access affecting Australian Seafood Exporters.
March 16, 2023
Seafood Trade Matters: Seafood Expo North America; Export explainer videos; Taiwan seafood market update
Seafood Expo North America
North America’s largest seafood expo was held on March 12-14 in Boston, with a strong Australian exporter presence led by Seafood Industry Australia at the Great Australian Seafood booth.
Seafoodsource.com reports on the Australian contingent here (paywall). More info on the expo here.
Seafood Export Facilitator Service: Explainer videos
DAFF’s Seafood Export Facilitator service has produced a series of short explainer videos to help current and new exporters. The videos provide an introduction to some of the basic government rules around export of seafood. View the content on the DAFF website here.
Learn more about the Seafood Export Facilitator service here.
Export Supply Chain Service: Spotlight on India
Austrade’s Export Supply Chain Service (ESCS) has produced a special edition of its ‘snapshot’ series looking at India. The document coincides with Prime Minister Albanese’s recent visit to the market and promotion of the recently implemented Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement. Read on the ESCS website here.
Taiwan: USDA Seafood Market Update
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Global Agriculture Information Network has published an update on the Taiwan seafood market for exporters.
According to the report: “Taiwan’s overall seafood imports reached US$2.1 billion in 2022, up 20 percent from 2021. Despite its high self-sufficiency of seafood, the market demands various seafood species that it is unable to supply fully. The five largest imported value-wise seafood categories for food consumption were frozen shrimps and prawns, fresh/chilled Atlantic salmon, frozen squid and cuttlefish, frozen scallops, and frozen halibut and Greenland turbot.”
Read more here.
China: APEC Business Travel Card to be accepted
According to the Department of Home Affairs, ‘The Chinese Government has announced that it
will accept the virtual APEC Business Traveller Card (ABTC) from 1 May 2023... China
continues to accept physical ABTCs from all participating APEC economies’. Read more on the
Department’s website here.
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