Traded product
Frozen HOG salmon, reprocessing raw material
HS code 0303.13
Salmon Guide →Bought on yield per kilo, not on appearance. Single-frozen or double-frozen is the whole negotiation.
Frozen head-on gutted salmon is raw material rather than a finished product: it goes to cutting lines in Vietnam, Thailand, China and Poland to be filleted, portioned, smoked or packed, and much of it is re-exported afterwards. The buyer is not paying for presentation. They are paying for how many kilos of saleable fillet come off a hundred kilos of input, which makes size consistency, freezing method and the declared freezing history the three fields that decide the price.
Commercial specification
- Product form
- Head-on gutted, frozen
- Freezing history
- Single-frozen or double-frozen — must be declared
- Size bands
- 3–4, 4–5, 5–6, 6+ kg
- Packing
- 20–25 kg blocks or industrial cartons
- Temperature
- −18 °C or colder; −25 °C preferred for long storage
- Shelf life
- Typically 18–24 months at −18 °C
- Minimum volume
- One 40 ft reefer container, approx. 25 tonnes
- To state in the request
- Intended cut, onward market, required traceability depth
Typical commercial specification. Where the industry genuinely varies, the field says so — and the binding specification is the one written into your contract, not this page.
What goes wrong on this product
Double-frozen material bought as single-frozen is the most common documentation dispute in this trade, and it surfaces at the re-export border rather than at the plant — by which point the goods have been cut and the evidence is gone. We require the freezing history in writing before the offer is passed on.
Landed cost
What it actually costs on your floor — an estimate
We do not publish a fish price, because a number with no volume, Incoterm or validity is not information. What we publish is the arithmetic. Enter the rates you have been quoted — nothing is pre-filled — and the calculator converts the offer to a single comparable basis: net of glaze or ice, one Incoterm, one currency, every line named. The result is an estimate.