What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Sri Lanka today?
The retail price range for Sri Lanka molluscs is between US$ 2.41 and US$ 3.85 per kilogram or between US$ 1.09 and US$ 1.75 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Sri Lanka
The retail price range in Sri Lanka Rupee for molluscs is between LKR 740.54 and LKR 1,184.86 per kilogram or between LKR 335.85 and LKR 537.35 per pound(lb) in Colombo and Jaffna.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Sri Lanka molluscs is between US$ 1.68 and US$ 2.70 per kilogram or between US$ 0.76 and US$ 1.22 per pound(lb).
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Sri Lanka Molluscs Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price per kilogram of Molluscs from Sri Lanka over the last five years has seen a steady decline. In 2012, the price was 14.97 US dollars per kg, and by 2021, it had dropped to 5.65 US dollars per kg. The biggest drop in price was seen between 2015 and 2016, when the price fell from 13.6 US dollars per kg to 10.15 US dollars per kg. The price has remained relatively stable since then, with a slight increase in 2020 to 5.52 US dollars per kg. Based on this trend, it is likely that the export price per kilogram of Molluscs from Sri Lanka in 2023 and 2024 will be around 5.00 US dollars per kg.Sri Lanka Molluscs Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Sri Lanka has seen a steady decline over the past five years. In 2016, the price was 10.15 US dollars per kg, and in 2021, it had dropped to 5.65 US dollars per kg. This represents a decrease of 44.3% over the five-year period. The lowest price was recorded in 2019, when the import price was 3.76 US dollars per kg. This was a decrease of 62.2% from the highest price of 16.55 US dollars per kg in 2013. Based on this trend, it is likely that the import price of Molluscs into Sri Lanka will continue to decrease in the coming years, with a predicted price of 4.50 US dollars per kg in 2023 and 4.00 US dollars per kg in 2024.Export values for Sri Lanka molluscs
The total values in export for molluscs in Sri Lanka were US$ 1,360, US$ 1,060, US$ 721 and US$ 1,230 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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Sri Lanka molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Sri Lanka exported 181 tonnes of molluscs. For the year 2019 alone, the market for Sri Lanka molluscs (seafood category) has escalated, recording a change of 84.694 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports increased by 88.54% bringing the country US$1.23m for the year 2019. Sri Lanka's molluscs exports are categorised as:
- 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, 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Sri Lanka molluscs export values
In 2019, Sri Lanka supplied molluscs with a value of 1.23m USD, an increase of 70.60% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.721m USD. The annual growth in value of Sri Lanka molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was -31.981 per cent.
The annual/yearly variation in the amount of Sri Lanka's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 88.54 per cent when compared to a variation of 84.694% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Sri Lanka molluscs ( in '000$ )
Sri Lanka brought in 2 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.