The General Department of Customs has reported that Vietnam exported 19,000 tonnes of tuna to the United States in 2009, earning 67.3 million USD. As per the figures release by VASEP year-on-year increase with the US of 20.4 percent in volume and 23 percent in value, accounting for 37.2 percent of Vietnam ’s tuna export share market, maintaining positive growth rate in both volume and value. VASEP also informed that other markets purchasing Vietnamese tuna include Canada, Lebanon, Switzerland and Australia with satisfactory growth from 13 percent to 40 percent in volume and from 2.7 percent to 26 percent in value compared to the previous year.
The price of Vietnam’s tuna is expected to drastically rise due to shrinking tuna supplies, especially if bluefin tuna is listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). State Bank deputy governor Nguyen Dong Tien said that before Lunar New Year, companies often focus on summarising business results and planning for the new year. The increase in credit growth for January was therefore not low in comparison with previous years, Tien said. The rate of growth was 0.65 percent in January 2009 and 0.9 percent in January 2008, while credit growth actually slowed by one percent in January 2007.
Exporters scramble to ship Tet goods to Vietnamese expats With Tet approaching, companies that export traditional New Year goodies to the Vietnamese diaspora abroad are working hard to ensure the goods go ontime. Hoang Ny, director of Thanh Tam Bonsai Art Center, said her firm exported three consignments of apricot trees to Asian countries for display during Tet.
