Canada — Chocolate and Cocoa Products — Chocolate-Cocoa

Lower risk. Canada ranks 8th of 8 origins shipping chocolate-cocoa to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 2.8 — the lowest of them.

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Canada received 23 FDA import refusals in Chocolate-Cocoa, part of Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe col, lacks n/c, and list ingre. Measured against US import value, that runs at 2.8 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Canada over the last 3 years.

Of these, 19 were hazard refusals and 4 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

1 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 1 1 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 1 3 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 3 2 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 2 0 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 0 3 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 3 1 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 1 1 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 1 4 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 4 1 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 1 3 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 3 3 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 3

Recent rejections