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
Recent rejections
- NM2-2291730-1 DWCIKIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- NM2-2291733-5 DWCIKIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- NM2-2291732-7 DWCIKIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- SCS-6726240-6 DWCIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- F23-9314221-1 DNEIKIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- 97E-0414845-9 DNEIKIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- 97E-0384623-6 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 113-0753670-4 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 113-0742711-0 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 97E-0384619-4 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 97E-0384616-0 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 113-0705766-9 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide
- 97E-0381616-3 DNEIAVOCADO (PIT FRUIT) pesticide