China — Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch
China received 23 FDA import refusals in Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2025-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are melamine, pesticide residue, and poisonous or deleterious substance. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from China, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import whole grains, milled grain products, and starch from China
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 23 refusals in the last 3 years, 22 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (12); DWCI — West Coast (9); DSEI — Southeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- January, August, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- melamine (13), pesticide residue (6), poisonous or deleterious substance (3), unfit for food (3), unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no food-canning registration (1), no process filing (1).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice | 7 | 73,391 t | 20.5 | pesticide residue |
| Wheat | 10 | — | — | melamine |
| Maize-Corn | 4 | — | — | melamine |
| Grains-Starch-Other | 2 | — | — | unsafe food additive |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 11 | 50,036 t |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- NFT-2095398-9 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substancemelamineunfit for food
- 8BL-0050440-2 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DNEI. melamine
- 8BL-0051174-6 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- EKH-1061784-6 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DWCI. melamine
- EKH-1029720-1 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 1FX-3790345-6 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DWCI. melamine
- 8BL-0043109-3 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivepesticide residue
- EKH-1039083-2 CORN, BOLTED MEAL OR FLOUR Import division DNEI. melamine
- U47-2517062-3 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DWCI. melamine
- 8BL-0039558-7 GLUTEN, WHEAT Import division DWCI. melamine
- 8XT-0034728-0 CORN, HOMINY GRITS Import division DWCI. melamine
- SCS-9376783-3 RICE PROTEIN Import division DSEI. unfit for food
- 9SB-0701625-1 CORN, BOLTED MEAL OR FLOUR Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- EKH-1023143-2 RICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- EKH-1019309-5 RICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 799-1642786-9 RICE PROTEIN Import division DWCI. melamine
- 799-0041136-6 RICE PROTEIN Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 274-2500624-7 CORN, PLAIN MEAL Import division DNEI. melamine
- EJ2-0168381-3 SOYBEAN FLOUR, MEAL, OR POWDER Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substancemelamineunfit for food
- K09-0093960-2 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
Data and downloads
Download all 52 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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China country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →