Jakarta- Indonesian shrimp Export has dominated the market in the United States (US) market on February 2015.
Based on Indonesia’s trade value in February 2015 had a surplus of US $ 738.3 million. This occurs because exports recorded at US $ 12.3 billion, while imports only US $ 11.6 billion.
Factors supporting the trade surplus in February 2015 is increasing non-oil exports, among others, which contributed export shrimp products.
Trade Minister (Minister) Rachmat Gobel said that Indonesian shrimp has dominated products market in the United States (US).
US during 2015 is still the country’s largest non-oil exports. Market share of nearly 10% of total non-oil exports from January to February 2015. Indonesia also managed to become the ruler of the US shrimp market 23%, “Gobel said when met at the office of the Ministry of Commerce (Ministry) Road Ridwan Rais, Jakarta, Tuesday (17/03 / 2015).
Indonesia beat the shrimp exporting countries such as India, Malaysia to Ecuador. “Beating India, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia,” he added.
Based on data from the US Government trade Indonesia record as the ‘ruler’ shrimp exports to the US with a value of US $ 93.5 million or dominate with a market share of 22.7%