Trochus Shell Prices

NOWADAYS, practically the whole of "Papua-New Guinea’s shell exports'go to Europe, Japan, and USA—not Aus tralia. Some overseas principals have recently queried Australian agents and P-NG suppliers about the difference in prices shown in “PlM’s” Islands produce columns (above) and the price they them selves pay.

There are, of course, no “official” rates for trochus shell, and those published by ‘“PIM” (which are supplied by Islands firms in Sydney) are intended as a guide to the prices that producers in the Pacific may expect for their produce, depending on quality and grading.