What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Chile today?
The retail price range for Chile molluscs is between US$ 7.82 and US$ 11.73 per kilogram or between US$ 3.55 and US$ 5.32 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Chile
The retail price range in Unidad de Fomento for molluscs is between CLP 6,254.72 and CLP 9,382.08 per kilogram or between CLP 2,836.61 and CLP 4,254.91 per pound(lb) in Santiago and Salamanca.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Chile molluscs is between US$ 5.47 and US$ 8.21 per kilogram or between US$ 2.48 and US$ 3.72 per pound(lb).
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Chile molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of molluscs exported by Chile in 2020 was 2,326 metric tons. In 2019 Chile exported 3,774 tonnes of molluscs. For 2019 alone, the demand for Chile molluscs (seafood category) has decreased, with a change of -15.684 per cent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports decreased by -30.51 percent bringing the nation US$30.43m for the year 2019. Chile's molluscs exports are categorised as:
- 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)
- Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
- 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, 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)
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
- 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)
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Chile molluscs export values
In 2019, Chile sold molluscs worth 30.43m USD, a contraction of -15.13% from 2018's total molluscs export of 35.856m USD. The yearly change in value of Chile molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was -2.671 percent.
The per year variation in the quantity of Chile's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was -30.51% in comparison to a variation of -15.684% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Chile molluscs ( in '000$ )
Chile procured 847 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.