According to the statistics figures of the General Department of Customs, the country’s exports of seafood in the first 5 months of 2019 reached over 3.18 billion USD, down slightly by 0.8% compared to the first 5 months of 2018. In May of 2019 alone, the country’s exports of seafood reached 763.37 million USD, increased by 20.4 per cent compared to April of 2019 but slightly decreased by 0.3 per cent compared to May of 2018.

Vietnam's seafood exports to Japan reached 553.26 million USD in the period, accounted for 17.4 per cent of the total seafood export turnover of the country, up by 11.3 per cent over the same period of 2018.

The second largest market was the US with 509.69 million USD, up by 3.8 per cent and accounted for 16 per cent of the total; to EU market reached 489.86 million USD, accounted for 15.4 per cent of the total and down by 11.8 per cent; to China - reached 381.83 million USD, accounted for 12 per cent of the total and down by 3.7 per cent; to South Korea reached 308.8 million USD, accounted for 9.7 per cent and down by 1.6 per cent. Meanwhile, the seafood exports to Southeast Asia accounted for 8.1 per cent of the total seafood export turnover of the whole country with 258.46 million USD, up by 0.8 per cent over the same period last year.

In the first 5 months of this year, Vietnam’s exports of seafood to the majority of markets increased in turnover over the same period last year. The exports to Ukraine increased by 73.1 per cent to 9.5 million dollars; to Iraq - increased 42.6 per cent to 5.14 million USD; to Brunei increased by 37.6 per cent to 0.9 million USD; to Mexico - increased by 24.3 per cent to 54.47 million USD.

However, the exports of seafood to Saudi Arabia dropped strongly by 98.8 per cent over the same period last year to only 0.17 million USD. Besides, some markets also fell sharply such as: Pakistan decreased 77%, reached 2.75 million USD; to Czech - decreased by 47.3 per cent to 1.54 million USD; to Colombia - dropped by 30.7 per cent to 18.56 million USD; to the Netherlands - fell by 28.8 per cent to 89.83 million USD.

Market	May of 2019	+/- May of 2019 vs. April of 2019 (%)	First 5 months of 2019	+/- First 5 months of 2019 vs. same period of 2018 (%)
Total	763,372,661	20.4	3,183,797,124	-0.76
Japan	142,070,175	35.74	553,264,622	11.31
The U.S	124,248,855	21.05	509,692,206	3.78
EU	111,948,379	3.55	489,862,940	-11.84
China	115,958,336	58.14	381,832,638	-3.71
South Korea	71,635,955	11.75	308,802,882	-1.57
South East Asia	51,252,339	13.6	258,458,067	0.76
Thailand	21,284,484	35.19	107,750,592	-1.61
Britain	25,148,606	28.35	101,568,792	0.53
The Netherlands	19,676,446	4.78	89,827,158	-28.8
Canada	17,316,567	7.75	81,232,434	4.61
Australia	16,566,562	0.07	76,220,170	4.57
Germany	16,704,300	-5.76	74,750,194	-5.19
Hong Kong (CN)	16,145,249	27.08	68,743,022	-8.93
Mexico	7,604,991	-12.33	54,468,878	24.25
Malaysia	10,449,210	2.99	52,835,150	18.91
Belgium	11,216,977	7.98	49,279,513	-22.9
Taiwan (CN)	12,482,002	21.52	48,258,435	19.56
The Philippines	7,336,982	-10.43	44,165,137	-2.61
France	10,917,370	7.56	42,397,416	0.64
Italy	9,107,420	-17.4	41,155,880	-22.76
Russia	8,088,794	-28.33	41,003,644	11.96
Singapore	8,624,893	8.52	40,748,886	-8.58
Israel	7,604,232	35.98	31,072,028	-17.1
Spain	6,360,705	-3.24	30,538,393	17.69
Brazil	2,756,385	-31.5	26,208,969	-23.62
The U.A.E	5,730,858	-1.26	24,690,287	-24.49
Portugal	5,125,857	-10.29	21,286,515	-12.65
Egypt	4,550,201	16.05	18,992,467	9.14
Colombia	3,198,868	-21.79	18,563,062	-30.66
Denmark	3,056,084	-6.48	15,455,961	7.03
India	2,816,168	18.29	11,648,423	-0.13
Switzerland	2,773,976	1.02	11,378,254	-12.2
Cambodia	2,966,912	54.16	10,470,216	2.94
Ukraine	2,388,867	-11.36	9,498,900	73.07
Poland	2,226,417	17.2	9,375,536	6.81
New Zealand	1,748,949	16.92	8,319,304	-0.77
Chile	1,021,431	-47.26	6,680,824
Sweden	950,819	-40.59	5,619,359	-22.48
Iraq	1,443,299	30.28	5,142,146	42.63
Peru	1,402,318	43.38	4,509,881
Greece	927,481	51.75	4,342,194	13.42
Turkey	915,550	-7.67	4,244,474	21.75
Algeria	849,139	-15.47	3,952,758
Kuwait	549,874	-29.16	3,189,904	-10.44
Norway	953,838	181.01	3,030,890
Panama	667,876	64.38	2,873,535
Sri Lanka	675,095	108.26	2,784,876
Pakistan	439,707	101.81	2,746,370	-77
Romania	229,513	-62.12	2,725,815	-0.93
Indonesia	353,836	-63.28	1,583,279	-12.61
Czech	300,384	68.19	1,540,214	-47.32
Brunei	236,022	17.76	904,807	37.64
Angola	250,356	300.57	638,786
Senegal	91,154		537,537
Saudi Arabia			172,650	-98.77