Import market · HS 0303 · KR

South Korea imports of Fish: frozen (HS 0303)

Where South Korea buys fish: frozen: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 0303 · South Korea trade profile

South Korea imports, 2024USD 1.2 billionSum over 76 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.

South Korea imports, 2023USD 1.4 billionSame partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.

Growth−12.3%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.

Unit valueUSD 2,161 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.

Trade companies in the directory45,312Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#	Supplier	Value 2024	Share	Growth	Record
1	Russia	USD 344.4 million	28.6%	−18.2%	BACI:KR:RU:0303:1:2024
2	China	USD 221.9 million	18.4%	+3.0%	BACI:KR:CN:0303:1:2024
3	Norway	USD 104.3 million	8.7%	−4.4%	BACI:KR:NO:0303:1:2024
4	United States	USD 94.3 million	7.8%	−37.1%	BACI:KR:US:0303:1:2024
5	Hong Kong	USD 76.9 million	6.4%	−1.9%	BACI:KR:HK:0303:1:2024
6	Taiwan	USD 67.3 million	5.6%	−4.2%	BACI:KR:TW:0303:1:2024
7	Chile	USD 52.9 million	4.4%	+11.3%	BACI:KR:CL:0303:1:2024
8	Guinea	USD 32.6 million	2.7%	−15.7%	BACI:KR:GN:0303:1:2024
9	Argentina	USD 18.6 million	1.5%	+11.3%	BACI:KR:AR:0303:1:2024
10	Mexico	USD 18.5 million	1.5%	−15.2%	BACI:KR:MX:0303:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the South Korea total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in South Korea, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of other food, including fish (NACE 4638). Counts only.

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Data Passport

CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-22. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of South Korea with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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