In May, the country’s imports of seafood increased by 29.4 per cent over the previous month and by 60.3 per cent over the same month of last year to $ 163.35 million.

India, Norway, Taiwan, China and Japan were still the country’s leading seafood import markets in the first five months of this year. The imports of seafood from India increased by 14.7 per cent over the same period last year to $ 152.08 million, accounted for 21.8 per cent of the country’s total seafood imports.

Meanwhile, the imports of seafood from Norway increased sharply by 71.9 per cent year – on – year to $ 72.25 million; from Taiwan – up by 41 per cent to $ 46.84 million; from China – down by 9.4 per cent to $ 44.41 million.

Besides, the imports of seafood from Indonesia increased by 77.9 per cent to $ 29.55 million; from Malaysia – up by 83.1 per cent to $ 2.6 million; from Poland – up by 73.7 per cent to $ 3.57 million; from Canada – up by 77.7 per cent to $ 10.5 million; and from South Korea – up by 71.9 per cent to $ 33.77 million.

However, the country’s imports of seafood from Myanmar, Denmark and China decreased by 42.6 per cent; 23.1 per cent and 9.4 per cent, respectively.

Market	May of 2018	May of 2018 vs. April of 2018 (%)	May of 2018 vs. May of 2017 (%)7	First 5 months of 2018	First 5 months of 2018 vs. same period of 2017 (%)
Total	163,352,736	29.37	60.25	697,509,517	33.28
India	35,201,041	37.18	43.68	152,082,973	14.72
Norway	14,017,596	1.69	25.05	72,245,562	71.93
South East Asian countries	11,769,860	55.07	54.37	51,451,446	48.82
Taiwan	10,152,734	29.81	82.53	46,844,117	41
China	10,735,363	16.83	1.46	44,405,186	-9.35
Japan	10,570,977	47.81	113.34	42,074,367	47.76
Chile	6,182,279	-20.44	87.22	36,602,612	95.1
South Korea	11,902,147	105.85	406.59	33,773,460	71.88
Russia	7,640,375	44.52	29.09	33,444,811	36.34
Indonesia	6,878,078	106.82	89.11	29,951,180	77.87
The U.S	4,380,013	-23.08	53.01	20,698,060	32.78
EU	4,483,614	44.65	26.9	20,316,688	6.64
Canada	2,215,492	2.7	199.12	10,496,188	77.7
Thailand	2,248,011	34.72	44.06	9,096,655	16.62
Denmark	2,320,466	124.25	20.82	8,777,525	-23.1
Britain	1,493,622	-8.63	12.99	7,970,502	42.77
Singapore	1,365,680	25.33	34.03	5,221,330	12.81
The Philippines	672,804	1.66	-28.96	3,593,471	66
Poland	669,526	55.67	130.23	3,568,661	73.71
Malaysia	414,489	-41.16	-10.09	2,601,707	83.06
Myanmar	190,798	36.58		987,103	-42.6