Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-36203

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding the value of salmon exports since 2016, broken down by (i) region and (ii) country.

Please find information in the following tables.

Table 1. UK Exports of Atlantic Salmon between 2016-2020, by Region (Ranked by 2019 Value)
			Value (£000’s)
			2016	2017	2018	2019	2020*
Atlantic Salmon (1)			450,480	608,630	509,517	627,968	453,999
	1	European Union	204,235	290,671	254,754	332,516	290,859
	2	North America	160,023	203,741	143,024	183,234	109,075
	3	Asia and Oceania	73,536	98,483	99,637	96,768	37,449
	4	Middle East and North Africa	10,575	12,011	8,312	11,105	4,821
	5	Western Europe excluding EU	1,736	3,108	3,308	3,587	3,941
	6	Eastern Europe excluding EU	190	133	157	464	7,648
	7	Latin America and Caribbean	116	427	234	221	138
	8	Sub-Saharan Africa	70	57	91	72	68

Source: HMRC OTS, accessed 12 March 2021. Includes BTTA estimates and unscheduled revisions.

* Provisional figures; (1) Atlantic salmon is shown by CN8 code 03021400.

Table 2. UK Exports of Atlantic Salmon between 2016-2020, by Top 10 Country
		Destination and Value (£000’s)
		2016		2017		2018		2019		2020*
Atlantic Salmon (1)		450,480		608,630		509,517		627,968		453,999
	1	USA	154,109	USA	193,022	France	167,771	France	225,215	France	187,077
	2	France	138,419	France	191,536	USA	139,090	USA	178,463	USA	104,367
	3	China	52,872	China	68,691	China	68,350	China	59,077	Poland	31,076
	4	Ireland	26,917	Ireland	35,186	Ireland	31,867	Ireland	25,631	Ireland	17,586
	5	Germany	9,928	Taiwan	15,945	Taiwan	21,834	Germany	23,479	Taiwan	15,220
	6	Taiwan	8,950	Germany	12,982	Germany	15,502	Taiwan	23,266	China	14,177
	7	Poland	8,511	Poland	11,371	Belgium	8,510	Belgium	15,319	Belgium	13,451
	8	Belgium	7,964	Canada	10,719	Denmark	8,466	Poland	11,761	Germany	12,640
	9	Canada	5,865	Belgium	9,856	Poland	7,687	Denmark	10,420	Netherlands	12,286
	10	Lebanon	5,075	Netherlands	8,805	Japan	5,531	Japan	9,158	Belarus	5,811

Source: HMRC OTS, accessed 12 March 2021. Includes BTTA estimates and unscheduled revisions.

* Provisional figures; (1) Atlantic salmon is shown by CN8 code 03021400.

This information has been extracted using HMRC’s Overseas Trade Statistics data files available at: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/