Statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs showed that tuna export turnover reached nearly 88 million USD, up 108 percent compared with the same period last year.

Shipments of Vietnamese tuna products to eight major markets are on the rise, except for China. The US is𒈔 still Vietnam’s largest importer, making up nearly 50 percent of the country’s total tuna expor๊t value in January.

 The country earned 44 million USD from the export of the product to the US in the month, an increase of 210 percent year-on-year.

Vietnam’s tuna exports to the EU also rose remarkably in the first month of this year. Notably, tuna sales to Netherlands and Lithuania soared by 243 percent and nearly 2,000 percent against the previous year, respectively.

However, tuna exports to Japan in the month d𒅌r♍opped 17 percent year on year./.