Canned Mackerel (425 g in Tomato Sauce, Brine or Oil)

The 425 g oval or tall tin in tomato sauce, a staple for West African and Middle East wholesale

Canned mackerel is the working tin of the open market: a 425 g can of Pacific or Atlantic mackerel (Scomber japonicus, S. scombrus and related species) in tomato sauce, sold by the carton of 24 to wholesalers in Accra, Lagos, Abidjan, Douala and across the Gulf, with smaller 155 g cans for households that buy one tin at a time. Buyers specify the species, the medium (tomato sauce, sometimes with chilli, brine or vegetable oil), the can shape and lid, the fish count and the net and drained weight, and mackerel, as a scombroid, is tested for histamine on every lot. Mackerel sold under the sardine-type name follows Codex CXS 94-1981 and other canned mackerel follows the Codex canned finfish standard CXS 119-1981, and the importing authority's own labelling and histamine rules sit on top. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 1604.15 total USD 0.79 billion and about 229,500 MT across reporters: China leads with USD 272 million and 129,938 MT at an average USD 2,096/MT, followed by Morocco (USD 115 million, 17,995 MT), Thailand (USD 72 million, 18,125 MT), Portugal (USD 57 million), Denmark (USD 46 million), Cabo Verde (USD 19 million), Ecuador (USD 16 million), the Philippines (USD 9 million) and Japan (USD 9 million, mostly a buying market). China's destination list shows the staple trade plainly: Ghana took 17,312 MT at USD 1,698/MT, Côte d'Ivoire 4,668 MT, and Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Fiji and Papua New Guinea each several thousand tonnes, while Japan took 11,901 MT of higher-value packs.

The buyer is an importer-distributor or wholesaler in West Africa, the Middle East or South Asia, or a supermarket chain's private-label desk, and the offer is a price per carton for a stated can, medium and drained weight in the buyer's brand or the cannery's. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers canned mackerel from Chinese, Thai, Moroccan, Portuguese, Ecuadorian and Philippine canneries against the competent-authority health certificate, the cannery's certificate of analysis for histamine and drained weight, a certificate of origin, an EU catch certificate for EU-bound product and label compliance per destination, including the importer's registration details where the authority requires them on the can. Cartons of 24 x 425 g, or 48 or 100 of the smaller cans, move palletised or floor-loaded in 20-ft dry containers on FOB, CFR and CIF terms. Every lot is fish only - CBIL does not broker crab, lobster, oysters, other shellfish or molluscs - and is certifiable as halal by the destination's accepted certifier per lot. Send the species, medium, can size and shape, carton count, brand or private label and discharge port and the enquiry is screened and worked against it.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.