In the first seven months of the year Vietnam exported just more than $985 million (€745.7 million) of pangasius of which nearly a quarter (23.4 percent) went to the United States, according to the latest figures from the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Compared with the same period in 2012, the United States saw Vietnamese pangasius exports jump 7.5 percent, while Vietnam’s second largest export market, the European Union, saw exports fall 12.7 percent to $222 million (€168.1