What is the price of blue mussel per kilogram/pound in Italy today?
The retail price range for Italy blue mussel is between US$ 3.66 and US$ 4.15 per kilogram or between US$ 1.66 and US$ 1.88 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of blue mussel in Italy
The retail price range in Euro for blue mussel is between EUR 3.38 and EUR 3.84 per kilogram or between EUR 1.53 and EUR 1.74 per pound(lb) in Rome and Milan.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Italy blue mussel is between US$ 2.56 and US$ 2.91 per kilogram or between US$ 1.16 and US$ 1.32 per pound(lb).
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Italy blue mussel - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The amount of blue mussel exported by Italy in 2020 was 4,802 tonnes. In 2019 Italy shipped 6,960 tonnes of blue mussel. Across 2019 alone, the market for Italy blue mussel (seafood category) has decreased, changing by -8.745 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, blue mussel's exports went down by -27.19 pc earning the exporter US$13.59m for the year 2019. Italy's blue mussel exports are categorised as:
- Live, fresh or chilled, not smoked, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", with or without shell (HS code 030731)
- Mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", smoked, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, with or without shell (HS code 030739)
- Mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", frozen, even in shell (HS code 030732)
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Italy blue mussel export values
In 2019, Italy supplied blue mussel valued at 13.59m USD, a reduction of -19.66% from 2018's total blue mussel export of 16.915m USD. The annual change in value of Italy blue mussel between 2017 to 2018 was -8.883%.
The annual variation in the volume of Italy's blue mussel exports between 2017 and 2019 was -27.19 per cent in comparison to a variation of -8.745% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Italy's stake of the world's total blue mussel's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. The country is ranked position 12 in world exports of blue mussel.
Export markets for Italy blue mussel ( in '000$ )
Import/Export Trends
Italy is a net importer of blue mussel. The annual growth of Italy blue mussel in value between 2015 to 2019 was 92%, per year, while annual growth in quantity for the same period was 119%, per annum.
Italy brought in 31,310 tonnes of blue mussel in 2019.