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Apr 25, 2017 (newstodate): Hopes are running high in Norway's seafood exporting industry for an imminent solution to remaining snags in exports to China.
Representatives from the VET authorities of the two countries met in Beijing late March, the Norwegian prime minister has been visiting China as well, and all sides express confidence in successful efforts to straighten out the issues blocking the full resumption of Chinese imports of Norwegian seafood including fresh salmon.
Prior to the imposition in 2010 of the Chinese embargo on the trade, Norway provided no less than 90 percent of all fresh salmon imported by China, but since then the proportion has shrunk to less than three percent.
Today Chile, Canada and Scotland are filling the Chinese plates with salmon, but expectations are that once the border reopens for Norway, the country's market share will rise to at least 65 percent.
Estimates aired at the recent Seafood Logistics Seminar in Oslo indicate that by 2020, Norway's seafood exports to China would reach some 70,000 tonnes.
Representatives from the VET authorities of the two countries met in Beijing late March, the Norwegian prime minister has been visiting China as well, and all sides express confidence in successful efforts to straighten out the issues blocking the full resumption of Chinese imports of Norwegian seafood including fresh salmon.
Prior to the imposition in 2010 of the Chinese embargo on the trade, Norway provided no less than 90 percent of all fresh salmon imported by China, but since then the proportion has shrunk to less than three percent.
Today Chile, Canada and Scotland are filling the Chinese plates with salmon, but expectations are that once the border reopens for Norway, the country's market share will rise to at least 65 percent.
Estimates aired at the recent Seafood Logistics Seminar in Oslo indicate that by 2020, Norway's seafood exports to China would reach some 70,000 tonnes.