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
Recent rejections
- 176-1051336-2 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1051797-5 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1051597-9 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1048853-2 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1049340-9 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- D84-0085756-0 DSEIPEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- EWV-2160394-6 DSEIPEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 900-0208726-1 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 900-0208019-1 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1043778-6 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1042908-0 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 176-1042267-1 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- DM4-0830321-0 DSEIPEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- B7E-0033054-6 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- B7E-0033039-7 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- H67-1693980-5 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 900-0199992-0 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticideno english
- H67-1691054-1 DNEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- 900-0199163-8 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- DM4-0827627-5 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide