Costa Rica — Fruit and Fruit Products

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Costa Rica received 12 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 9 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unfit4food, filthy, and nutrit lbl. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Costa Rica, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 11 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

2 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 2 0 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 0 0 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 0 0 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 0 1 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 1 0 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 0 0 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 0 0 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 0 0 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 0 0 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 0 0 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 0 9 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 9

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity Rejections Per $1B US imports Most-cited hazard
Fruit-Other 12 unfit4food

Recent rejections