China — Soft Drinks and Waters — Soft-Drinks

Higher risk. China ranks 3rd of 12 origins shipping soft-drinks to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 227.6 — above 82% of them.

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China received 18 FDA import refusals in Soft-Drinks, part of Soft Drinks and Waters between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are melamine, no process, and nutrit lbl. Measured against US import value, that runs at 227.6 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from China over the last 3 years.

Of these, 17 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

1 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 1 0 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 0 0 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 0 0 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 0 0 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 0 3 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 3 2 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 2 3 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 3 4 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 4 3 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 3 1 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 1 1 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 1

Recent rejections