Ecuador molluscs export quantities and HS Codes
In 2019 Ecuador shipped 701 tonnes of molluscs. For 2019 alone, the interest in Ecuador molluscs (seafood category) has escalated, recording a change of 47.89 per cent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports grew by 12.88% earning the nation US$0.49m for the year 2019. Ecuador's molluscs exports are classified as:
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
- Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, aquatic invertebrates (excluding crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish); all flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030890)
- Molluscs, even in shell, frozen (excl. oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish and squid, octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells, abalone and stromboid conchs); flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, frozen, fit for human consumption (HS code 030792)
- Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell, smoked, frozen, dried, salted or in brine (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); frozen, dried, salted or in brine, flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030799)
- Live, fresh or chilled molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); fresh or chilled flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030791)
- Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
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Ecuador molluscs export values
In 2019, Ecuador sold molluscs valued at 0.49m USD, an improvement of 78.83% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.274m USD. The yearly change in value of Ecuador molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was -35.071 per cent.
The annual change in the volume of Ecuador's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 12.88% when compared to a variation of 47.89% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Ecuador molluscs ( in '000$ )
Ecuador bought 46 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.
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Production of other produce in the Seafood category in Ecuador: Sea Bass, Sea Bream, Lobster, Shrimps & Prawns, Crabs, Crustaceans, Oysters, Scallops, Blue Mussel and Cuttlefish & Squid.
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