Switzerland molluscs export quantities and HS Codes
The amount of molluscs exported by Switzerland in 2020 was 5 tons. In 2019 Switzerland sold 3 tonnes of molluscs. In 2019 alone, the demand for Switzerland molluscs (seafood category) has gone down, with a change of -40 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports decreased by -50 percent netting the nation US$0.11m for the year 2019. Switzerland's molluscs exports are categorised as:
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
- Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
- 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, 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Switzerland molluscs export values
In 2019, Switzerland exported molluscs costing 0.11m USD, a contraction of -35.67% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.171m USD. The annual change in value of Switzerland molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was -16.176 per cent.
The annual/yearly variation in the quantity of Switzerland's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was -50 per cent in comparison to a variation of -40% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Switzerland molluscs ( in '000$ )
Switzerland imported 801 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.
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