Chile — Fruit and Fruit Products — Tropical

Below the median. Chile ranks 10th of 13 origins shipping tropical to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 21.4 — above 25% of them.

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Chile received 13 FDA import refusals in Tropical, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2022-Q4 and 2025-Q2. Volume peaked at 6 in 2022-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is pesticide. Measured against US import value, that runs at 21.4 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Chile over the last 3 years.

Of these, 13 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 11 quarters

6 2022-Q4 2022-Q4: 6 1 2023-Q1 2023-Q1: 1 1 2023-Q2 2023-Q2: 1 0 2023-Q3 2023-Q3: 0 0 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 0 0 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 0 1 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 1 0 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 0 1 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 1 0 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 0 3 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 3

Recent rejections