Costa Rica — Fruit and Fruit Products
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 unfit for food, filth, and nutrition labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Costa Rica, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Costa Rica
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 10 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (7); DWCI — West Coast (2); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- July, November, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unfit for food (9).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (1), nutrition 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 10 | — | — | unfit for food |
"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
- EUG-0050479-5 MIXED FRUIT FLAVORED IMITATION FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. unfit for food
- EUG-0049042-5 MIXED FRUIT FLAVORED IMITATION FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- EUG-0049264-5 MIXED FRUIT FLAVORED IMITATION FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- EUG-0049273-6 MIXED FRUIT FLAVORED IMITATION FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. unfit for food
- 629-0052045-3 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 629-0052071-9 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 629-0052044-6 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 629-0052073-5 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 629-0052072-7 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 176-1030367-3 PIT AND CORE FRUITS, MIXED FRUIT PUREES Import division DNEI. nutrition labelingno process filing
- G51-0494111-9 TAMARIND, TOPPING OR SYRUP Import division DWCI. filth
- G51-0491416-5 TAMARIND, TOPPING OR SYRUP Import division DWCI. filth
- EJ7-0136950-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DSEI. filth
- EJ7-0132345-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 14 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 2026-08-11. To get new ones for Costa Rica by email, watch Costa Rica.
Costa Rica country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →