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
Recent rejections
- F57-6249991-5 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT false
- EI5-5680566-8 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (NOT COCONUT) labeling
- AEK-0688377-0 DSEICHOCOLATE AND COCOA PRODUCTS, N.E.C. inconspiculacks n/cnutrit lbllist ingre
- AEK-0497352-4 DSEICHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 9DH-0081001-5 DNBICHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. unsafe collist ingrelacks n/cnutrit lbl
- 9DH-0078741-1 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT lacks n/ccolorlabel
- AEK-9250651-6 DSEICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe colcolor lblg
- SCS-0037048-2 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- SCS-5657785-6 DSEICHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 9DH-0075323-1 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 879-4079374-5 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 9DH-0074166-5 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- F57-7367431-6 DNBICHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 300-2700515-7 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (NOT COCONUT) salmonella
- F57-7357603-2 DNBICHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- SCS-7114431-9 DSEICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- SCS-5498948-2 DNBICHOCOLATE BARS unsafe collist ingrelacks firmlacks n/c+1 more
- SCS-4806759-3 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe col
- 300-4871427-5 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT list ingredirsexmptunapprovedunsafe add
- 300-5205427-9 DNBICHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT unsafe addhealth c