What is the price of molluscs in US?

As of January 2025, molluscs in US is US$ 4.22 per kg (US$ 1.91 / lb), sourced from UN Comtrade (unit value).

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Molluscs Prices in US

US$ 4.22 / kg

US$ 1.91 / lb

MoM ▼ 16.2% YoY ▼ 16.2%

Checked: Jun 10, 2026

Price as of: January 2025

Source: UN Comtrade (unit value)

Variety	Market level	Price (US$/kg)	Price (US$/lb)	Local (USD)	MoM	YoY	Source
-	Export (unit value)	4.22	1.91	-	▼ 16.2%	▼ 16.2%	UN Comtrade (unit value)

As of June 2026, the molluscs price in US available is US$ 4.22 per kg (US$ 1.91 / lb), down 16.2% year-on-year.

In 2024, the US exported US$402.95 million worth of molluscs, totaling 80,001 tonnes. The country ranked 11th out of 111 exporters, accounting for 3.0% of global mollusc exports and showing an 8.3% year-on-year increase. The US is a net exporter of molluscs. The latest export unit value is US$4.2202 per kg.

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Production, Exports, Imports & HS Codes - molluscs in US

Exports UN Comtrade · 2024

In 2024, US exported $403M (80 kt) of molluscs▲ 8.3% YoY. That ranks #11 worldwide (3% of global exports).

$403M

Export value

80 kt

Export volume

#11 / 111

World rank

Global share

$5.04

Avg export price / kg

Export value by year (US$)

Export volume by year

Top molluscs exporters worldwide UN Comtrade · 2024

#1 China $2.55B · 19.2%
#2 Spain $1.24B · 9.3%
#3 Morocco $1.14B · 8.6%
#4 Indonesia $880.1M · 6.6%
#5 India $679.6M · 5.1%

Annual export data US · UN Comtrade

Year	Export value (US$)	Volume	Avg price/kg
2024	$403M	80 kt	$5.04
2023	$372.2M	67.5 kt	$5.51
2022	$453.5M	91.4 kt	$4.96
2021	$374M	72.9 kt	$5.13
2020	$295.7M	60.9 kt	$4.86

HS Code

molluscs is traded under Harmonized System code 0307. Trade figures above are compiled for this HS heading.

Sources: trade & HS - UN Comtrade. Values are official reported figures.

US molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes

The quantity of molluscs exported by US in 2020 was 832 metric tons. In 2019 US sold 1,192 tonnes of molluscs. For the year 2019 alone, the market for US molluscs (seafood category) has gone down, with a change of -22.396 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports went up by 0.25 percent netting the exporter US$16.01m for the year 2019. US' 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)
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)
Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
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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US molluscs export values

In 2019, US sold molluscs costing 16.01m USD, a decrease of -23.67% from 2018's total molluscs export of 20.976m USD. The yearly change in value of US molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 50.82 per cent.

The yearly variation in the volume of US' molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 0.25 pc when compared to a variation of -22.396% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.

Export markets for US molluscs ( in '000$ )

US brought in 7,882 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.

Other Seafood Prices in US

Latest prices for other seafood in US:

Lobster$28.26/kg Crab$13.46/kg Oysters$30.75/kg Shrimps & Prawns$18.66/kg Scallops$56.26/kg Sea Bass$37.48/kg Mussels$35.09/kg Sea Urchins$84.30/kg Octopus$18.92/kg Snails$15.73/kg Sea Cucumber$9.37/kg Caviar$59.94/kg Cuttlefish & Squid$5.98/kg Conch Snails$66.03/kg Jellyfish$1.79/kg

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Molluscs US

US$ 4.2202 / kg

generic Export (unit value) as of 2025-01-01

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