April 12, 2011
 

EU allows seafood imported from Vietnam

According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP), the European Commission has selected 53 more Vietnamese businesses which have good conditions to ship seafood to the market.

Businesses had to join strict quality inspection programmes conducted by the EU delegation to get the certificates for export to the EU.

Earlier, 330 businesses were allowed to export their products to the market.

In 2010, the EU imported more than US$1 billion seafood from Vietnam. Currently, the EU is still a big market for Vietnamese seafood products.