This week in a meeting with the High Commissioner of the UK to the Maldives, Vice President Faisal Naseem urged the UK government to consider the island nation’s request for tariff concessions...
Tuna Trade News
Tuna Is Still King Of Fish For Europeans
There is no doubt that Europeans love canned tuna and it remains their favorite compared to other fish and seafood products, according to official figures from the EU. The European Observatory...
Sharp Dip In EU Tuna Buying During 3rd Quarter 2020
After a very strong second quarter, the market for imported canned tuna in the EU has eased and corrected to last year’s level. This was mainly caused by a sharply reduced demand from Spain...
PNG Expands Foothold In Q3 In Stable EU Market
Canned tuna imports into the EU remained nearly stable during the first three quarters of this year (Q3 2020). PNG suppliers however managed to expand their foothold in the European market,...
Canners Win, EU’s Annual Loins Quota Increased
The EU has reached a decision on the controversial autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) for frozen pre-cooked loins volume for the period 2021-2023. Although it represents an increase in the current...
Tuna & Seafood Mislabeling In Hawaii Hinder Consumer Sustainability
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules lack specificity when it comes to tuna and seafood labeling, which might leave consumers without sufficient information on what they are eating,...
‘Tuna Per Tutti’ Via The Food Bank
Since February, Italian tuna brand, Rio Mare, has donated 860,000 cans of 80 g tuna in olive oil to the food bank in Lombardy, Italy. The people in this region have been hit the hardest by the...
Chinese Bonito Canners Get Business Back With Price Dump
Earlier this year, the US-China trade war resulted in a strong reduction of 'tuna-like' species imports - labeled as chunk light - into the US. The Asian country has been the leading supplier...
Canned Tuna Cannibalizing US Pouch Business
The import of tuna pouches into the US for the first nine months of the year has been quite low compared to the last two years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country has been experiencing...
US Court Won’t Lower StarKist’s Tuna Salads Tariff
StarKist’s petition that a variety of tuna salads be classified as prepared meals was rejected by the US Court of International Trade. The ruling means that the products will be subjected to a...
Thai Union To Invest In Automation And Robotics
The Thai Union Group will be setting aside money in the coming year to focus on automation and robotics which could downsize its tuna processing workforce. This week the company said that it...
Seychelles Skipjack An Attractive Deal
The Seychelles skipjack price is rising steadily unlike the stable price in Bangkok and declining value in Manta. Our sources confirmed that the Indian Ocean (IO) tuna catches are not as low...
Will US-Ecuador Agreement Have A Chance Under Biden?
In November, Atuna reported on the ongoing negotiations between the US and Ecuador for a reduction in tariffs for Ecuadorian tuna exports which would boost the nation’s competitiveness in the...
Top Filipino Tuna Company To Launch Country’s First Vegan Meat
Century Pacific Food, the Philippines' leading tuna and packaged food company will be launching UnMeat, the country’s first vegan brand for meat alternatives. In a press release, the firm's...
EPO Q3: Mexico’s Skipjack Catches Fall While Panama’s Surge
The EPO tuna catches during the first nine months of the year strongly declined and positioned between the amounts taken in 2019 and 2018. The main reason for the drop was that the skipjack...
Fishing Ban & Low Catches Keep Manta Price Up
The second EPO fishing ban or veda has already started and low volumes of raw material reaching the Manta port in Ecuador are keeping the skipjack price for this time of the year higher than...
Dongwon’s Senegalese Plant Expands US Pouch Business
Senegalese SCASA, a Dongwon-owned tuna processing company, has been having a good business year despite the global pandemic. “Indeed, during the pandemic which led to an unprecedented crisis...
EU Parliament Says Yes To Seychelles Deal Renewal
The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted in favor of renewing the EU-Seychelles fishing agreement, which grants access to the African nation's EEZ to 40 purse seiners and eight...
Ecuador Hopeful About A Tuna Duties Agreement With US
The Ecuadorian Ministry of Production is currently in Washington, DC, negotiating a trade agreement with the US that would reduce the tariffs for tuna exports. News outlets in the country are...
Limited Demand & Low Catches Keep BKK Skipjack Market Sluggish
The Bangkok skipjack market is slow but relatively balanced, a state contributed by poor catches in the WCPO and a conservative buying mood among Thai processors. There has been hardly any...