China — Nuts and Edible Seeds
China received 50 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 15 in 2024-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, color not declared, and refused establishment inspection. 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 nuts and edible seeds from China
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 50 refusals in the last 3 years, 48 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (27); DNEI — Northeast (14); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (8).
- Riskiest months
- September, November, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (41), refused establishment inspection (2), unsafe color additive (2), cyclamate (1), filth (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (3), listing refusal (1), labeling (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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other-Nuts | 48 | 527 t | 232.8 | pesticide residue |
| Groundnut | 2 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Sesame | 0 | — | — | — |
| Sunflower | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 50 | 792 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
- EPS-2161423-3 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. cyclamatenutrition labeling
- DP4-1065627-7 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 224-1302687-7 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 224-1302283-5 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 224-1302685-1 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 791-5996663-4 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 791-5977739-5 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 442-8887675-6 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 551-4137119-2 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 820-7087532-1 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 9HJ-0326209-7 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 9HJ-0326211-3 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 9NK-0032319-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. color not declared
- CIU-8129511-9 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 820-4804243-4 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 820-7087100-7 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- EJA-5221633-2 CHESTNUT, SHELLED Import division DWCI. refused establishment inspection
- 9ES-0098639-6 CHESTNUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. refused establishment inspectionlisting refusal
- 551-4060957-6 PUMPKIN SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8A8-2026181-6 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
Data and downloads
Download all 63 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 →