Colombia — Chocolate and Cocoa Products — Chocolate-Cocoa

Below the median. Colombia ranks 5th of 8 origins shipping chocolate-cocoa to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 34.2 — above 43% of them.

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Colombia received 7 FDA import refusals in Chocolate-Cocoa, part of Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is poisonous. Measured against US import value, that runs at 34.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Colombia over the last 3 years.

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

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Quarterly rejections, last 11 quarters

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

Recent rejections