China — Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch — Rice

Lower risk. China ranks 6th of 7 origins shipping rice to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 20.5 — above 17% of them.

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China received 7 FDA import refusals in Rice, part of Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch between 2023-Q1 and 2025-Q4. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, melamine, and unfit4food. Measured against US import value, that runs at 20.5 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from China over the last 3 years.

Of these, 7 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

Recent rejections

SCS-9376783-3 2025-12-22 DSEIRICE PROTEIN unfit4food
EKH-1023143-2 2025-09-18 DNEIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
EKH-1019309-5 2025-09-16 DNEIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
799-1642786-9 2025-09-09 DWCIRICE PROTEIN melamine
799-0041136-6 2025-08-06 DWCIRICE PROTEIN pesticide
NXW-0001310-6 2024-01-09 DWCIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
AEK-4373276-5 2024-01-04 DSEIRICE PROTEIN melamine
551-3622392-9 2022-08-25 DNBIRICE GLUTEN melaminecolorlabelpesticide
U83-2153026-2 2022-03-03 DWCIRICE PROTEIN pesticide
9EH-0071254-9 2021-12-21 DNBIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. lacks n/cnutrit lblneeds fcemelamine
9SB-0015439-8 2021-11-23 DNEIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
799-9139468-3 2021-03-12 DSEIRICE PROTEIN melamine
EPM-0156924-9 2020-08-14 DWCIRICE, WILD PROCESSED (PACKAGED) pesticide
ETS-0014549-7 2020-06-29 DNEIRICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) pesticide
224-4850767-7 2020-06-22 DWCIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
224-3101946-6 2020-06-04 DWCIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
KM6-3539058-6 2020-06-03 DNEIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide
ETS-0014500-0 2020-05-18 DNEIRICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) pesticide
U47-0909881-6 2020-01-21 DNEIRICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. pesticide