What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Italy today?
The retail price range for Italy molluscs is between US$ 4.05 and US$ 5.25 per kilogram or between US$ 1.83 and US$ 2.38 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Italy
The retail price range in Euro for molluscs is between EUR 3.74 and EUR 4.85 per kilogram or between EUR 1.70 and EUR 2.20 per pound(lb) in Rome and Milan.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Italy molluscs is between US$ 2.83 and US$ 3.67 per kilogram or between US$ 1.28 and US$ 1.67 per pound(lb).
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Italy molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of molluscs exported by Italy in 2020 was 2,888 tons. In 2019 Italy exported 2,764 tonnes of molluscs. Across 2019 alone, the interest in Italy molluscs (seafood category) has reduced, recording a change of -6.685 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports reduced by -10.38 pc bringing the nation US$24.96m for the year 2019. Italy's molluscs exports are classified as:
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Italy molluscs export values
In 2019, Italy supplied molluscs valued at 24.96m USD, a drop of -9.32% from 2018's total molluscs export of 27.524m USD. The annual change in value of Italy molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 6.369%.
The yearly change in the amount of Italy's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was -10.38 pc in comparison to a variation of -6.685% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Italy molluscs ( in '000$ )
Italy imported 5,292 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.