Despite low demand, tuna has traded at USD2 300/tonne again

摘要

SKIPJACK has now traded at USD2300 per tonne in Bangkok. The current British pound - US dollar exchange rate means that it is now more expensive for British importers even than last autumn's highs. This comes as the EU cracks down ever harder on paperwork, making it very risky to import from some origins. Erik Thorbek of H&T Walker explained that business in the UK is currently extremely slow, with very little buying going on. "The UK has no appetite," he said. The run up to Easter is traditionally aperiod of high demand, and one might expect that demand for fish products would be higher given the ongoing horsemeat scandal affecting meat products. A second contact based in the US concurred, commenting: "Tuna seems stuck at particularly high levelsand I can't quite figure out why. There really isn't any demand here right now and there wasn't any spike of interest pre-Lent."