France — All Categories

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France received 57 FDA import refusals across all food categories between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 10 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are listeria, unapproved, and no english. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from France, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 36 were hazard refusals and 21 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

2 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 2 4 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 4 3 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 3 6 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 6 3 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 3 5 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 5 4 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 4 6 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 6 10 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 10 7 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 7 5 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 5 2 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 2

By category, last 156 weeks

Category Rejections Per $1B US imports Most-cited hazard
Cheese and Cheese Products 35 listeria
Baby (Infant and Junior) Food Products 5 no english

Recent rejections

Recent weeks

WeekBorder rejections
2026-W380
2026-W370
2026-W361
2026-W350
2026-W341
2026-W330
2026-W320
2026-W310

→ See all FDA import refusals for 2026-W38