In 2018, China imported around 1.6 billion Canadian dollars worth of shellfish products. That year, the import value of frozen, smoked, dried, salted cuttlefish and squid amounted to 684.6 million Canadian dollars, accounting for 42.3 percent of China's total shellfish imports.
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Note: 1 Canadian dollar equals approximately 0.75 U.S. dollars and 0.7 euros (as of February 2020).
Products are either live, fresh, frozen, chilled, salted, smoked, dried or in brine.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Sector trend analysis – shellfish trends in China, 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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