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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Illegal raw shrimp import pull Thai shrimp price down (week ended Mar 6, 2014)
Somsak Paneetatyasai, president of the Thai shrimp association, said during the annual seminar of the Thai Chamber Association last Friday (March 7, 2014) that last year's final shrimp production figure was officially at 250,000 tonnes, dow ...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thai shrimp prices stable with possible 20-30% fall in production in 2014 (week ended Feb 20, 2014)
Thai cultivated shrimp production in the past five years has been falling by about 15.14% on average every year, particularly since the last quarter of 2012, which continued into the whole of 2013. Some shrimp farmers have switched from far ...
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Thai shrimp prices stable despite reduced workday at processing plants (week ended Feb 6, 2014)
Shrimp production is still low with stable price. Due to seasonal low production in the first quarter of each year, some processing plants cut working days from 6 days to 5 days a week due to the lack of raw materials.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Thai shrimp prices stable, with 29.63% increase in production expected in 2014 (week ended Jan 16, 2014)
Shrimp price have been on the slide since late October 2013 and remain very high, even higher than in Ecuador, especially for the smaller sizes. Production is still low with no sign of increased production. Last year, shrimp production aver ...
Monday, December 23, 2013
Thai shrimp prices remain stable despite concern over foreign competitions (week ended Dec 19, 2013)
In the first 10 months of 2013, shrimp exports plummeted 38.4% in volume to 175,713 tonnes, and 28.89% in value to US$1.7 billion due to the shortfall in production. As prices rose quickly in response to the shortfall, the value of shrimp e ...
Friday, December 20, 2013
Thai shrimp sector's losses may reach US$1.5 billion due to EMS
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thai shrimp trading price stable while Thailand is exempted from countervailing duties by US (week ended August 15, 2013)
Aug 20, 2013 - This week, shrimp trading price is unchanged from last week, at THB225/kg (US$7.27/kg) for a kilogramme of 50 shrimps. Prices have been fairly stable price for 3-4 weeks. Shrimp farmers in the eastern region start production ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Moderate trading at high prices amid threat of US ban on Thai shrimp (week ended July 18, 2013)
The Thai Trade Centre for the United States has warned that the US government may ban imports of shrimp with EMS, as the changes could hurt Thai shrimp farmers and exporters. Pichalai Siripanich, senior director to the Thai Trade Centre in ...
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Thai shrimp farmers urge the EU to maintain GSP to cope with EMS (week ended Jul 4, 2013)
The president of the Thai Shrimp Association Somsak PaneeTatayasai has led a team representing shrimp farmers to submit a petition to the ambassador of the European Union to Thailand, asking for an extension of the Generalised System of Pre ...
Monday, June 24, 2013
Government support urged to lift Thai shrimp export (week ended June 20, 2013)
Shrimp supply is still low with high wholesale price and light trading volume. Shrimp transaction is traded about THB215/kg (US$6.89/kg) this week for a kilogramme of 50 shrimp, a fall from last week at THB225/kg (US$7.21/kg) Currently, Tha ...
Friday, June 14, 2013
US announces 2.9% preliminary countervailing duties for Thai shrimp exports to US (week ended June 6, 2013)
Shrimp supply is still low, pushing up shrimp prices with light trading volume. Shrimp transaction is traded higher at THB225/kg (US$7.36/kg) this week for a kilogramme of 50 shrimp, an increase from THB210/kg (US$6.87/kg) last week. The US ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Early Mortality Syndrome continues to keep Thai shrimp prices high (week ended May 23, 2013)
The private sector and the government have coordinated to conduct trials in the laboratory to attempt to solve this problem and it is expected that a solution will be found in one to two months and the shrimp industry can expect a recovery. ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Supply shortage continues as Thai shrimp prices hit new high (week ended Mar 28, 2013)
Continued low shrimp supplies at wholesale markets push wholesale prices up to THB200/kg (US$6.5/kg) for a kilogramme of 50 shrimps, from THB190/kg (US$6.44/kg) two weeks ago. Average trading volume of last two weeks is 79 containers, a rel ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thai Shrimp Weekly: US uses TIP issue in Thai shrimp industry to push through US meat exports (week ended Feb 14, 2013)
The US is still harping on the case of TIP in shrimp industry even though it visited Thai fishery and shrimp processing factories last month, together with 20 ambassadors and over 100 local and international media. Shrimp exporters believe ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Thai Shrimp Weekly: Thai shrimp producers unsettled by EMS and export subsidy accusation by US. (week ended Jan 31, 2013)
The US international trade administration formally initiated an investigation on export subsidies on shrimp from seven countries including Thailand, after complaints of government assistance to support shrimp exports to the US market.

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