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First Quarter 2005 Thai
shrimp exports dropped 13 percent
As reported by the Thai Frozen Foods Association,
the volume of Thai frozen and fresh shrimp
exported globally dropped in the first three
months of 2005 to 27,382 metric tons.
Volume sales to the United
States , Thailand ’s
largest market, fell 30 percent to 13,453
metric tons. Volume sales to its second largest
market, Japan , declined 9 percent to 4,127
metric tons. Sales to Canada soared nearly
60 percent to 2,380 metric tons during the
first quarter of 2005; sales to Alaska jumped
70 percent to 1,052 metric tons.
The association’s
statistics indicate exports of fresh, chilled
and frozen fish
from Thailand to Vietnam soared 9,243 percent,
leaping from 814 metric tons in the first
quarter of 2004 to 76,000 metric tons during
the same period this year.
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