date:Nov 06, 2012
Ecuador has overtaken the Philippines as the leading supplier of canned tuna in Germany, official figures from the European Commission showed.
Data published by global tuna industry resource outfit www.atuna.com showed the Philippines shipped 15,074 metric tons (MT) of tuna to Germany last year, slightly lower than the 15,149 MT supplied by Ecuador.
Canned tuna imports account for almost all of Germanys tuna importation, which in 2011 jumped to a three-year record high of 60,015 tons.
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