Costa Rica — Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum — Candy
Higher risk. Costa Rica ranks 6th of 21 origins shipping candy to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 1,670 — above 75% of them.
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Costa Rica received 7 FDA import refusals in Candy, part of Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2026-Q3, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are unfit4food, unsafe col, and no english. Measured against US import value, that runs at 1,670 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Costa Rica over the last 3 years.
Of these, 7 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.
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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Recent rejections
- EH3-2670727-8 DNBIJELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY unfit4food
- EH3-2671074-4 DNEIJELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY unfit4food
- ASE-1514365-4 DSEIGEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED W/FRUIT CANDY unsafe colno englishunfit4foodnutrit lbl
- ASE-1514023-9 DSEIGEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED W/FRUIT CANDY unfit4food
- EH3-2574566-7 DNEIJELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY unfit4food
- 9ST-0011007-6 DSEIGEL CUPS CANDY unfit4food
- 404-2339449-9 DSWIGEL CUPS CANDY unfit4food
- 9ST-0006895-1 DSEIGEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED unsafe col