Fish and Fishery Products Trade by India: Trends, Competitiveness, and Comparative Advantage

This study analyzes the trends and determines comparative advantage competitiveness of India’s fish fishery products trade in world market exports to 10 major destinations over period 2000–2021. We use revealed symmetric (RSCA) index quantify exporting Vollrath measure country’s trade. collected relevant data at Harmonized System (HS) four-digit level from UN Commodity Trade (UN Comtrade) database. Our analysis shows that India has a (RCA) market. Specifically, frozen fish, crustaceans, mollusks; but it disadvantage live fresh chilled fillets other meat, dried/salted/in-brine smoked In terms individual destinations, RCA Hong Kong; UAE (in recent years); China, Kong, Thailand (recent years), Vietnam meat Japan dried crustaceans Japan, US, Canada mollusks EU, aquatic invertebrates Vietnam. (RCD) Vietnam, fillet Canada, The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected export, advantage, products. decreased 2018–2020, increased by 2021.