What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in US today?
The retail price range for US molluscs is between US$ 13.39 and US$ 19.13 per kilogram or between US$ 6.07 and US$ 8.67 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in US
The retail price range in Euro for molluscs is between EUR 12.28 and EUR 17.55 per kilogram or between EUR 5.57 and EUR 7.96 per pound(lb) in Washington and New York.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for US molluscs is between US$ 9.37 and US$ 13.39 per kilogram or between US$ 4.25 and US$ 6.07 per pound(lb).
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US Molluscs Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price per kilogram of Molluscs from the US over the last five years has been quite varied. In 2016, the price was 52.56 US dollars per kilogram, the highest of the five years. This was followed by a sharp drop to 11.7 US dollars per kilogram in 2017. The price then increased steadily to 13.45 US dollars per kilogram in 2019, before rising again to 14.67 US dollars per kilogram in 2020. The most recent year, 2021, saw the price reach 14.89 US dollars per kilogram. Based on this trend, it is likely that the export price per kilogram of Molluscs from the US will reach 15.49 US dollars per kilogram in 2022 and could potentially reach 16.09 US dollars per kilogram in 2023 and 16.69 US dollars per kilogram in 2024.US Molluscs Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Molluscs into the US has seen a steady increase over the last five years. In 2017, the price was 11.7 US dollars per kg, which increased to 13.66 US dollars per kg in 2018. In 2019, the price was 13.45 US dollars per kg, and in 2020, it was 14.67 US dollars per kg. The highest price was recorded in 2021, when it was 14.89 US dollars per kg. The most recent data shows that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into the US was 15.49 US dollars per kg in 2022. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into the US will be 16.09 US dollars per kg in 2023 and 16.69 US dollars per kg in 2024.Export values for US molluscs
The total values in export for molluscs in US were US$ 18,869, US$ 13,908, US$ 20,976 and US$ 16,013 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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US molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of molluscs exported by US in 2020 was 832 metric tons. In 2019 US sold 1,192 tonnes of molluscs. For the year 2019 alone, the market for US molluscs (seafood category) has gone down, with a change of -22.396 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports went up by 0.25 percent netting the exporter US$16.01m for the year 2019. US' 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)
- 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, 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)
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
- 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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US molluscs export values
In 2019, US sold molluscs costing 16.01m USD, a decrease of -23.67% from 2018's total molluscs export of 20.976m USD. The yearly change in value of US molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 50.82 per cent.
The yearly variation in the volume of US' molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 0.25 pc when compared to a variation of -22.396% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for US molluscs ( in '000$ )
US brought in 7,882 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.