What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Cape Verde today?
The retail price range for Cape Verde molluscs is between US$ 0.96 and US$ 2.89 per kilogram or between US$ 0.44 and US$ 1.31 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Cape Verde
The retail price range in Cape Verdean Escudo for molluscs is between CVE 98.26 and CVE 294.77 per kilogram or between CVE 44.56 and CVE 133.68 per pound(lb) in Praia and Mindelo.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Cape Verde molluscs is between US$ 0.67 and US$ 2.02 per kilogram or between US$ 0.31 and US$ 0.92 per pound(lb).
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Cape Verde Molluscs Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price of Molluscs from Cape Verde has seen a significant increase over the last five years. In 2010, the export price per kilogram was 1.62 US dollars, which dropped to 0.44 US dollars in 2011. However, from 2017 onwards, the export price has been steadily increasing, reaching 70.5 US dollars in 2017, 78.33 US dollars in 2018, and 68.00 US dollars in 2019. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the export price of Molluscs from Cape Verde will be around 81.50 US dollars in 2023 and 85.50 US dollars in 2024.Cape Verde Molluscs Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Cape Verde has seen a significant increase over the past five years. In 2010, the price was 1.62 US dollars per kg, which dropped to 0.44 US dollars per kg in 2011. However, from 2017 onwards, the price has been steadily increasing, reaching 70.5 US dollars per kg in 2017, 78.33 US dollars per kg in 2018 and 68.0 US dollars per kg in 2019. Based on this trend, it is likely that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Cape Verde will continue to increase in the coming years, with an estimated price of around 75.00 US dollars per kg in 2023 and 80.00 US dollars per kg in 2024.Export values for Cape Verde molluscs
The total values in export for molluscs in Cape Verde were US$ 141, US$ 470 and US$ 68 in US dollar thousand for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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Cape Verde molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Cape Verde shipped 1 tonnes of molluscs. In 2019 alone, the demand for Cape Verde molluscs (seafood category) has decreased, flactuating by -83.333 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports decreased by -50 pc netting the exporter US$0.07m for the year 2019. Cape Verde's molluscs exports are categorised 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)
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
- 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)
- 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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Cape Verde molluscs export values
In 2019, Cape Verde exported molluscs costing 0.07m USD, a drop of -85.11% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.47m USD. The annual reduction in value of Cape Verde molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 233.333 per cent.
The annual/yearly variation in the quantity of Cape Verde's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was -50 pc in comparison to a variation of -83.333% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Cape Verde molluscs ( in '000$ )
Cape Verde imported 37 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.