Afghanistan — Fruit and Fruit Products
Afghanistan received 66 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 9 in 2025-Q1, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, pesticide residue, and unsafe color additive. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Afghanistan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Afghanistan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 66 refusals in the last 3 years, 62 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (33); DWCI — West Coast (18); DNEI — Northeast (15).
- Riskiest months
- January, July, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (45), filth (20), unsafe color additive (4), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- sulfites not declared (7), no manufacturer name (4), color not declared (3).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berries-Grapes | 48 | 66 t | 4,520 | pesticide residue |
| Stone-Fruit | 7 | — | 2,169 | sulfites not declared |
| Fruit-Other | 7 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Tropical | 4 | — | — | filth |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 52 | 123 t |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- KM6-3689342-2 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 158-2605643-2 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
- 823-0227487-1 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3686074-4 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residuefilth
- KM6-3676853-3 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- AY0-0138073-4 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
- KM6-3677433-3 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residueingredients not listednutrition labeling
- KM6-3678654-3 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 332-0299565-1 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filthunsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 9VV-0052264-4 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- AXJ-2500098-8 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 823-0224557-4 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filthno manufacturer name
- 158-2605320-7 APRICOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. sulfites not declared
- AY0-0137641-9 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- EUG-0048236-4 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
- EUG-0043453-0 MIXED FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE, N.E.C., Import division DWCI. no process filing
- 823-0223200-2 CHINESE RED DATE (JUJUBES, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA), DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0072956-7 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- AY0-0136578-4 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filthunsafe color additivecolor not declared
- EUG-0048352-9 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 84 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-22. To get new ones for Afghanistan by email, watch Afghanistan.
Afghanistan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →