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Sojitz acquired all shares of SFIH on October 2, 2026, making the UK's NESI a consolidated subsidiary. We lay out, from the breakdown of US$43 million in exports to the UK, how joint procurement and certification requirements for UK mass retailers will affect negotiations over Vietnamese white fish.

Raw fish at 36,000 dong against an export-equivalent of 33,000 dong. From this inverted-margin structure and the buyer order of China at 27% and Japan at 2.4%, we have organized how Japan should structure its white-fish sourcing.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported on September 24, 2026, that Brazil's seafood-processing body Abipesca had put a proposal to its own government to set an annual cap of roughly 16,200 tonnes on imported tilapia fillets. The original source is Brazil's CNN Brasil, and the quota is designed not to distinguish by country of origin...

In figures released by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on September 25, 2026, tilapia (ca ro phi) exports reached US$90 million for the January–August cumulative total, up 43% year on year. In the same figures, exports to Japan were US$2 million cumulatively, up 77%, and US$400,000 in August alone (original text "400 nghin USD"), up 19...

The major Japanese seafood company Kyokuyo presented about 500 seafood and processed-food items to about 760 client companies at its own trade show held in Osaka on September 11. At the event, organized by its four branches in Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka, one of the items proposed was fillets of Vietnamese frozen pangasius (ca tra)...

With wild white fish in short supply, the largest pangasius company, Vinh Hoan, is expanding sales channels centered on Europe. Its CEO named Brazil and Japan. We lay it out from the perspective of Japanese buyers looking for white-fish substitutes.

Vinh Hoan's ASC-certified prepared pangasius product "Cured Panga Croquette" took the top award at Seafood Excellence Asia 2026. We lay out its significance from the angle of a white-fish substitute for Japan's foodservice and ready-meal sectors.

The major Vietnamese pangasius company Nam Viet has formed a long-term partnership with the UK's Benchmark on breeding Nile tilapia. Through ASC and BAP certification and genetic improvement, the options for white-fish raw materials used by Japanese foodservice are widening.

Vietnam's seafood exports are expected to exceed US$12 billion for the full year 2026. With cod and Alaska pollock stuck in a high price range amid a global white-fish shortage, the competitiveness of Vietnamese pangasius, which can be produced stably through farming, is rising. We have laid out, with figures, the points that can be used in Japanese food-service and private-brand sourcing.

On August 12, 2026, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) published the final results of the 21st annual review (POR21, covering the period August 2023 to July 2024) of the anti-dumping duty on frozen pangasius (basa / Vietnamese catfish). The duty rate jumped three- to fivefold from the preliminary results in February of that year, and the mainstay of exports to the United States...