Dominican Republic — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Pepper

Higher risk. Dominican Republic ranks 1st of 5 origins shipping pepper to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 497.8 — the highest of them.

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Dominican Republic received 32 FDA import refusals in Pepper, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 10 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide and no english. Measured against US import value, that runs at 497.8 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Dominican Republic over the last 3 years.

Of these, 32 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

3 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 3 2 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 2 0 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 0 1 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 1 0 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 0 3 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 3 10 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 10 1 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 1 4 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 4 2 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 2 3 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 3 3 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 3

Recent rejections