The bar chart below shows US seafood imports between 2002 and 2022 and the forcast for 2032. The pie chart shows the geographical structure of these imports in 2022.

The bar chart illustrates the amount of seafood

imports

from 2002 and 2022, with the prediction for 2032. The pie chart highlights the proportion of

imports

in 2022

according to

the countries.

Overall

,

it is clear that

although

there is an upward trend between 2002 and 2022, the figure for 2032 is expected to decrease slightly. In 2022, China and Thailand consisted of the largest part. Focusing on the US seafood

imports

, 7

billion

US dollars of seafood were imported in 2002.

This

number reached over 10

billion

dollars in 2012, before rising to about 20

billion

in 2022. In 2032,

however

,

this

trend will change and decrease by 2

billion

US dollars. Turning to the proportion, the majority part of

imports

were caused by China and Thailand, at 28% and 23%, respectively. Canada followed these countries at 16%.

In contrast

, the remainder figures were relatively small, Indonesia's was 9% and Vietnam's was 8%. The lowest one was Ecuador at 7%

while

the other was 9%.