Dominican Republic — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Dominican Republic received 39 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 10 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue and no manufacturer name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Dominican Republic, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Exporting from Dominican Republic? Get an email when shipments from Dominican Republic are refused at the US border — before your buyers ask.
One email a week, and only when something matches. We'll send a confirmation link first; unsubscribe any time from the footer of any email.
Key figures
If you import vegetables and vegetable products from Dominican Republic
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 41 refusals in the last 3 years, 41 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (22); DNEI — Northeast (19).
- Riskiest months
- March, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (41).
- Paperwork to get right
- no manufacturer name (1), not in English (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pepper | 35 | 981 t | 528.0 | pesticide residue |
| Vegetables-Other | 6 | 14,417 t | 43.6 | pesticide residue |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 41 | 2,948 t |
"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
- 176-1054082-9 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 900-0220797-6 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residueno manufacturer name
- 176-1052821-2 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 256-0426333-2 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1052301-5 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1051336-2 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1051797-5 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1051597-9 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1048853-2 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049340-9 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- D84-0085756-0 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- EWV-2160394-6 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 900-0208726-1 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 900-0208019-1 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1043778-6 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1042908-0 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- H67-1699833-0 SQUASH, SUMMER (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- H67-1701456-6 SQUASH, SUMMER (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1042267-1 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- H67-1698869-5 SQUASH, SUMMER (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 98 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 2026-10-21. To get new ones for Dominican Republic by email, watch Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →