According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep), for the whole year of 2022, Vietnam’s tuna exports reached the target of 1 billion USD, up 34% compared to 2021. This is also the first time the industry’s tuna exports have reached an export value of billion USD.

This result contributes to Vietnamese seafood industry's export turnover of 11 billion USD in 2022.

Vietnam's tuna products have been exported to 99 markets around the world. Among them, the US, the European Union (EU), the countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Israel, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the Philippines and Egypt are Vietnam's largest tuna importers, accounting for 92% of total export value.

Notably, in the CPTPP market, exports to Japan grew continuously in the last quarter of 2022.

In December alone, tuna exports to Japan increased by 131% over the same period last year, contributing to bringing Vietnam's tuna to the CPTPP market to nearly 136 million USD, up 48% compared to 2021.

In the whole year of 2022, Vietnam's tuna exports to the CPTPP market reached nearly 136 million USD, up 48% compared to 2021.

In the EU, Germany, Spain and Belgium were the three largest importers of Vietnamese tuna in the EU last year. Particularly in December 2022, tuna exports to Germany and Spain are increasing gallopingly at 3 digits, 161% and 117%, respectively.

The restart of preferential tariff quotas as agreed in the EVFTA Agreement in the first months of 2022 has boosted tuna exports to this market. The value of tuna exports to the EU increased by 29% in December 2022, reaching nearly 15 million USD, bringing the total export turnover to this market block in the whole year of 2022 to nearly 166 million USD, up 15% compared to the previous year.