The graphs provide information on US seafood imports from 2002 to 2022, as well as predicting the seafood imports until 2032, along with a geographical illustration by country of origin in 2022. Overall, the US seafood imports increased from 2002 to 2022 with the majority of imports from China, followed slightly behind by Thailand. However, the prediction of the volume of the imports decrease in 2032.
Whilst, it is clear the increase in 6 billions on US dollars from 2002 to 2012, the profits triple the amount from 2012 to2022. Here, it is were the peak of seafood imports occur in the bar chart.
Unfortunately, after this period the forecast for 2032 decline by approximately 2 billions US dollars in seafood imports.
Regarding the geographical distribution of the seafood imports in 2022, Ecuador (7%) and Vietnam (8%) were the lowest percentage of imports to the United States. Whereas, China (28%) and Thailand (23%) imports half of the seafood volume to US, dominating the market.
