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Table 30 US imports of frozen sharks by country in US$ 1 000

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Spain	-	3	-	60	-	-	-	4	220	976
Canada	29	48	81	62	134	353	500	114	45	48
Peru	-	24	-	-	-	32	-	-	12	38
New Zealand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	31
Nicaragua	-	-	3	20	-	15	-	-	2	23
Hong Kong	485	92	-	7	43	24	4	312	546	21
Singapore	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	18
Fiji	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12
Mexico	36	-	15	-	-	-	1	8	18	3
Thailand	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Japan	10	4	2	-	-	18	190	126	38	-
Chile	35	6	-	-	92	24	2	-	34	-
Costa Rica	-	-	53	5	2	166	-	-	8	-
Turks & Caicos Is.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-
Trinidad & Tobago	1	57	67	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
Ecuador	-	35	47	-	28	-	16	1	2	-
Honduras	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	5	-	-
UK	43	-	-	-	-	-	49	-	-	-
Philippines	42	-	-	-	-	-	26	-	-	-
Argentina	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
Bangladesh	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guyana	-	-	-	6	-	2	-	-	-	-
India	-	-	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Malaysia	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
Morocco	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Netherland Antilles	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Portugal	5	6	2	21	10	13	-	-	-	-
Taiwan PC	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Uruguay	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Venezuela	-	-	-	3	50	-	-	-	-	-
Total	689	274	285	205	361	649	788	570	931	1 172

Source: NMFS.

Table 31 US exports of fresh sharks by country in tonnes

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
France	-	107	155	587	1 760	2 049	2 606	2 819	1 936	1 215
Germany	-	110	45	19	96	245	256	753	546	548
UK	-	61	159	332	152	352	382	273	592	513
Netherlands	-	0	-	7	23	144	13	4	359	458
Canada	9	497	418	525	657	767	641	502	483	274
Mexico	26	0	2	134	386	262	33	32	54	176
Hong Kong	43	5	12	15	-	61	24	3	33	143
Belgium	-	-	36	152	146	342	154	260	128	112
Japan	-	18	16	20	33	74	97	86	51	86
Italy	-	18	39	0	92	145	26	34	89	86
Svalbard-Jan Mayen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	46	12
Brazil	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
New Zealand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Czech Rep.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	2
Thailand	35	311	82	134	219	95	29	-	157	-
Spain	-	1		18	7			21	16	-
Greece	-	-	-	38	308	65	65	63	15	-
Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	1	-
Taiwan PC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	1	-
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-
Korea Rep.	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	0	-
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-
Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Turkey	-	-	-	3	2	0	-	-	-	-
Denmark	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
Total	114	1 129	963	1 983	3 883	4 632	4 327	4 858	4 515	3 634

Source: NMFS.

Table 32 US exports of fresh sharks by country in US$ 1 000

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
France	-	194	254	2 030	5 646	5 708	8 504	9 180	5 026	4 005
Netherlands	-	3	-	28	95	516	46	14	1 202	1 854
UK	-	128	530	1 182	508	887	1 208	917	1 724	1 793
Germany	-	311	123	42	182	962	1 066	1 957	1 712	1 533
Canada	20	673	706	845	1 001	1 776	1 289	872	991	471
Italy	-	32	79	-	156	273	39	101	340	375
Belgium	-	-	119	485	409	850	532	731	292	357
Hong Kong	112	11	60	35	0	67	133	6	172	356
Japan	-	26	52	45	74	221	440	366	222	293
Mexico	19	-	5	130	362	461	58	58	59	159
Svalbard-Jan Mayen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	300	50
Brazil	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
New Zealand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Czech Rep.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	3
Thailand	166	690	343	766	884	568	212	0	557	-
Spain	-	4	-	29	15	0	0	102	88	-
Greece	-	-	-	55	513	124	81	89	22	-
Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-
Taiwan PC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	7	-
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	3	-
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
Korea Rep.	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	0	-
Turkey	-	-	-	9	6	3	-	-	-	-
Denmark	-	-	-	-	13	-	-	-	-	-
Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	-	-	-
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	34	-	-	-	-
Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-
Total	316	2 072	2 273	5 682	9 863	12 478	13 616	14 415	12 734	11 272

Source: NMFS.

Table 33 US exports of frozen sharks by country in tonnes

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Germany	19	246	469	576	486	597	2 104	2 286	1 248	1 139
France	218	867	959	2 043	1 184	964	2 011	2 219	1 844	801
Japan	14	175	316	249	196	540	281	212	110	500
UK	7	316	161	452	481	316	749	821	380	464
Belgium	59	62	64	372	39	42	365	416	261	180
Canada	43	22	32	3	18	26	342	338	47	40
Hong Kong	-	7	-	24	3	34	205	50	263	39
Korea Rep.	-	42	-	-	-	40	-	-	18	19
Thailand	-	0	181	187	292	262	206	186	191	13
Mexico	10	2	35	-	36	51	27	42	37	13
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	10	12
Cayman Is.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Costa Rica	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	-	-	-
Uruguay	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	235	-
Italy	-	57	196	323	70	61	253	169	28	-
Greece	32	57	98	22	-	230	122	371	26	-
Romania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	-
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
Norway	-	-	-	20	10	20	60	34	-	-
China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	-
Sweden	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	14	-	-
Singapore	-	-	-	-	0	-	13	11	-	-
Colombia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-
Turkey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-
Denmark	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	5	-	-
Iceland	-	-	-	-	-	-	210	-	-	-
Portugal	-	-	-	44	71	159	17	-	-	-
Netherlands	-	-	11	59	-	-	15	-	-	-
Venezuela	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
Spain	-	24	216	359	211	302	4	-	-	-
Ireland	-	12	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Peru	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	403	1 900	2 745	4 733	3 097	3 646	7 032	7 206	4 725	3 220

Source: NMFS.

Table 34 US exports of frozen sharks by country in US$ 1 000

Country	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Germany	70	963	1 437	1 196	1 127	1 890	9 031	7 982	3 239	3 091
France	435	1 204	1 767	4 181	2 580	3 063	3 526	3 933	3 921	1 835
UK	12	605	266	782	843	597	1 522	1 606	874	1 095
Japan	59	391	582	447	487	1 257	804	450	262	898
Belgium	105	121	126	692	75	84	767	824	474	383
Canada	95	40	56	6	27	18	842	1 048	133	159
Hong Kong	-	36	-	163	10	71	648	217	561	86
Thailand	-	-	651	753	902	1 717	976	1 427	1 124	78
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	20	47
Korea Rep.	-	63	-	-	-	130	-	-	50	40
Mexico	22	4	22	-	23	56	33	24	20	13
Cayman Is.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
Costa Rica	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	-	-	3
Uruguay	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	187	-
Italy	-	107	426	1 237	261	189	477	243	51	-
Greece	21	69	180	46	-	417	227	662	34	-
Romania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-
Norway	-	-	-	27	68	134	415	251	-	-
China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	150	-	-
Singapore	-	-	-	-	17	-	56	88	-	-
Sweden	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	30	-	-
Colombia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-
Turkey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-
Denmark	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	14	-	-
Ireland	-	64	56	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iceland	-	-	-	-	-	-	442	-	-	-
Portugal	-	-	-	267	312	602	58	-	-	-
Spain	-	22	974	1 370	716	1 019	35	-	-	-
Netherlands	-	-	38	190	-	-	31	-	-	-
Venezuela	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-
Peru	-	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	819	3 714	6 580	11 359	7 449	11 255	19 943	18 981	10 985	7 737

Source: NMFS.