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Norway salmon exports — destinations and trade flow
Where Norway's Atlantic salmon ships. Monthly volumes by partner country, market concentration, and headline movers — refreshed each time customs statistics publish.
Latest month · August 2026
Latest available customs month (SSB table 08799). Per-country trade publishes in arrears — around the middle of the following month — so the latest available month trails the weekly export price by several weeks. Month-over-month compares with July 2026.
Norway shipped Atlantic salmon to 71 partner countries in August 2026. The three largest buyers were Poland, Netherlands, China, together accounting for 40.0% of the month's volume.
Market concentration (HHI, annual): 734.1 in 2025 — unconcentrated. Top destination Poland held 17.0% of annual volume across 88 partners.
The Herfindahl–Hirschman Index sums the squared market shares of every destination (scale 0–10,000): higher means exports lean on fewer markets, lower means demand is spread broadly. Standard DOJ/FTC bands — below 1,500 unconcentrated, 1,500–2,500 moderate, above 2,500 highly concentrated.
Top 10 destinations · August 2026
| Rank | Country | Volume (t) | $/kg | Share | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poland | 26,397 | $7.08 | 20.9% | +7.1% |
| 2 | Netherlands | 13,460 | $7.51 | 10.6% | +22.4% |
| 3 | China | 10,694 | $8.89 | 8.5% | -11.8% |
| 4 | France | 8,278 | $7.47 | 6.5% | +8.8% |
| 5 | Spain | 7,787 | $7.83 | 6.2% | -8.5% |
| 6 | Denmark | 7,614 | $7.26 | 6.0% | +36.5% |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 6,991 | $7.80 | 5.5% | +11.4% |
| 8 | Italy | 6,558 | $7.50 | 5.2% | -4.9% |
| 9 | Germany | 4,607 | $7.60 | 3.6% | -12.6% |
| 10 | Lithuania | 4,238 | $7.22 | 3.4% | +1.2% |
$/kg is the implied unit value (USD value ÷ volume) per destination — a customs-valuation average across the salmon commodity group, not the weekly fresh/chilled benchmark. Download the full month: CSV · JSON.
All destinations · August 2026
Poland · Netherlands · China · France · Spain · Denmark · United Kingdom · Italy · Germany · Lithuania · Finland · United States of America · Thailand · Sweden · South Korea · Taiwan · Ukraine · Portugal · Canada · Hong Kong · Latvia · Japan · Türkiye · Saudi Arabia · Belgium · Estonia · Czechia · United Arab Emirates · Ireland · Singapore · Viet Nam · Romania · Greece · Morocco · South Africa · Malaysia · Switzerland · Cambodia · Indonesia · Serbia · Uzbekistan · Bulgaria · Qatar · Austria · Israel · Lebanon · Philippines · Bahrain · Kuwait · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Georgia · Hungary · Luxembourg · Oman · Armenia · India · Kenya · Egypt · Azerbaijan · Mauritius · Pakistan · Croatia · Slovakia · Maldives · Macao · Guam · Mexico · Zimbabwe · Ghana · Nigeria
Notable movers
- 5-year breakout — China: +238.2% · 10,694 t · $95.1M · vs 2021 (5y) · last full year 2025
- Month-over-month gainer — Canada: +41.4% · 1,231 t · $10.3M · vs Jul 2026 (MoM) · all partners
- Month-over-month decliner — Ukraine: -15.1% · 1,426 t · $10.4M · vs Jul 2026 (MoM) · all partners
Biggest movers · August 2026
| Country | Volume (t) | MoM |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1,231 | +41.4% |
| Denmark | 7,614 | +36.5% |
| Portugal | 1,311 | +23.7% |
| Netherlands | 13,460 | +22.4% |
| Ukraine | 1,426 | -15.1% |
The five largest month-over-month volume swings among partners above 1,000 t in August 2026, ranked by absolute % change vs July 2026.
About this trade data
Volumes reflect the first customs destination, not the final consumer market. Several top partners are re-export hubs rather than terminal buyers: Polish processors fillet and smoke whole Norwegian salmon and ship it onward, mostly to Germany; the Netherlands and Lithuania play similar EU logistics roles; Denmark to a lesser degree. Shipped-to figures for those countries therefore overstate local demand and undercount the true downstream markets. On the live dashboard these hubs carry a re-export marker; the reattribution is a directional estimate drawn from trade-press and Eurostat re-export accounting, not a primary customs feed.
Monthly destination figures come from SSB table 08799, fresh/chilled farmed Atlantic salmon only (HS 0302.1411 + 0302.1419), the same product as the weekly price series (table 03024). They are customs months published about six weeks later, so monthly destination tonnage and the weekly headline still cover different periods and can differ slightly in total.
Source: SSB (Statistics Norway) · Norges Bank