Colombia — Chocolate and Cocoa Products
Colombia received 7 FDA import refusals in Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is poisonous or deleterious substance. Measured against US import value, that runs at 33.6 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Colombia over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import chocolate and cocoa products from Colombia
Below the median. Colombia ranks 5th of 8 origins shipping chocolate and cocoa products to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 33.6 — above 43% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (5); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1); DWCI — West Coast (1).
- Test for before shipping
- poisonous or deleterious substance (7).
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 11 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate-Cocoa | 7 | 2,939 t | 34.2 | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 7 | 2,939 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
- M92-3207481-2 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- TXC-6507806-4 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- M92-3200168-2 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- TXC-6505170-7 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- M92-3191907-4 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- TXC-6503607-0 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- M92-3183891-0 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA BEVERAGE BASE, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
Data and downloads
Download all 7 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-07-08. To get new ones for Colombia by email, watch Colombia.
Colombia country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →