Two additional processing plants in Myanmar have been granted permits to export wild-caught fish products to the EU, bringing the total number that meet the required standard in the country to 21, reports The Myanmar Times.
TT Cold Store Factory and A&N Foods (Myanmar) Co. have become the latest Burmese processing plants to meet the health and environmental requirements for exporting produce to the EU, after receiving guidance from the government's fisheries department, a state report said.
Myanmar's marine exports, primarily sent to other Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea, are likely to continue growing this year. The Southeast Asian country reported its largest export volume in history over the 2017-18 period: 550,000 metric tons of exported produce, sold for $712 million.
However, the country's farmed fish is still not eligible for export to the EU, as Myanmar`s farms cannot guarantee that they are free from biochemical residue. [Edit: sources tell us this is incorrect, and that Myanmar received approval to export aquaculture products to the EU at the end of last year.]
As part of the export conditions, farmed produce can also only be produced from hatcheries that meet the standards set by "Good Aquaculture Practices".
Prior to last year, Saudi Arabia, which imports roughly 20,000 metric tons of marine products from Myanmar annually, had had no qualms in importing farmed Burmese rohu fish.
However, the discovery of bacteria on the same species from Vietnam has led Saudi Arabia to cease imports of the farmed rohu from the region. A delegate from the country`s food and drug authority has been dispatched to examine the conditions at Myanmar`s farms to determine whether it is safe to resume trade in the fish.
Source: Under Current News
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<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
