In August only, the seafood imports fell by 9.9 per cent over the previous month and by 11.3 per cent over the same month of 2017 to $132.07 million.

India was still the country’s biggest seafood import market in the first eight months of this year with the import value of $250.03 million, accounted for 21.9 per cent of the total. In August, the imports of seafood from India reached $18.88 million fell sharply by 42.5 per cent over the previous month and by 64.7 per cent over the same month of 2017.

Norway ranked second with $117.83 million, up by 66.7 per cent in the first eight months of this year. The figure of August was $15.56 million, up by 11.8 per cent over the previous month and by 72.2 per cent over the same month of last year.

The country’s imports of seafood from the South East Asian countries in the first eight months of this year increased sharply by 56.9 per cent year – on – year to $93.19 million. Of the figure, the imports from Indonesia reached $57.12 million, up by 87.1 per cent; from Thailand - $13.75 million, up by 4 per cent; from Singapore - $8.56 million, up by 19.7 per cent; from the Philippines - $6.55 million, up by 92.7 per cent; from Malaysia - $5.17 million, up by 102 per cent; and from Myanmar - $2.03 million, down by 20.1 per cent.

In the first eight months of this year, Vietnam’s imports of seafood from China slightly decreased by 4.3 per cent year – on – year to $74.89 million; from Taiwan (CN) – up by over 18 per cent to $74.12 million; and from Japan – up by 48.7 per cent to $73.75 million.

In the first eight months, the country’s imports of seafood from Canada also increased sharply by 77.9 per cent to $30.88 million; from South Korea – up by 66.6 per cent to $54.2 million; from Chile – up by 54.2 per cent to $48.98 million; from the U.S – up by 56.7 per cent to $37.29 million.

However, the imports of seafood from Myanmar decreased by 20.1 per cent to $2.03 million; from Denmark – down by 13.1 per cent to $13.12 million; from Poland – down by 11.1 per cent to $5.05 million.

Market	August of 2018	August of 2018 vs. July of 2018 (%)	First 8 months of 2018	First 8 months of 2018 vs. same period of 2017 (%) *
Total	132,066,233	-9.88	1,140,912,382	24.17
India	18,882,119	-42.48	250,034,183	-2.7
Norway	15,561,332	11.82	117,833,426	66.7
China	8,606,760	7.16	74,885,459	-4.29
Taiwan (CN)	11,320,445	59.29	74,115,984	18.07
Japan	9,438,115	-16.39	73,754,300	48.71
Indonesia	8,635,955	-25.21	57,122,685	87.14
South Korea	6,792,571	18.63	54,196,054	66.6
Russia	5,903,053	-7.06	52,871,793	29.33
Chile	1,954,865	-64.43	48,979,384	54.15
The U.S	6,924,583	224.81	37,289,962	56.69
Canada	7,218,404	-23.38	30,878,404	77.88
Thailand	903,210	-45.57	13,752,710	4.04
Denmark	1,384,583	-32.26	13,123,765	-13.13
Britain	1,158,894	-33.52	12,182,784	47.42
Singapore	1,174,637	-9.1	8,557,766	19.71
The Philippines	1,377,161	105.24	6,554,838	92.65
Malaysia	987,172	14.98	5,167,720	101.95
Poland	637,951	101.53	5,050,395	-11.12
Myanmar	438,525	9.15	2,031,511	-20.12