Vietnam exported 145 million U.S dollars worth of tra fish (pangasius) to China in the first four months of this year, up 43 percent on-year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). With the turnovers, China surpassed the United States to become Vietnam's largest tra fish importer in the fourth- month period, VASEP said on Friday, adding that Vietnam is currently the third largest provider of white fish for China, after Russia and Norway. VASEP considered China a key market for a tra fish export this year and forecast its demand for Vietnamese tra fish will expand in the second quarter of 2018.

Vietnam's tra fish exports to China up 43 percent in 4 months. (2018, June 5). Manila Bullein, p. 9.