Its possible to get import statistics from chinas customs agency. Website is http://english.customs.gov.cn/ Then select Statistics->Interactive Tables, it takes you to a form where you can search by commodity, eg "Atlantic salmon", set months, and also locations
e.g. Commodity code 3031310 'Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ,frozen', for July there was 117,733 kg imported for 5,253,091 Renminbi Yuan, which is 44.61 Yuan per kg, $9.55AUD per kg (i guess that is after freight is paid for) Will be interesting to see the numbers for August.
Commodity code 3021410 is for "Fresh or chilled Atlantic salmon", set the Location to "Shanghai Province" and for Jan-June give 2,944,436kg for 196,510,211 Yuan, or 66.7 Yuan per kg.
IIRC shanghai is where we import to, but also that it moves around a bit, so not sure how useful setting province is, but it could possibly isolate country of origin if imports from Norway etc go to closer ports for them.
Havent worked out the different codes, some look similar, there is separate ones for smoked as well.
Might be a useful data source.
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