Ghana — Nuts and Edible Seeds — Other-Nuts

Higher risk. Ghana ranks 2nd of 7 origins shipping other-nuts to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 13,968 — above 83% of them.

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Ghana received 22 FDA import refusals in Other-Nuts, part of Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are salmonella, nutrit lbl, and mycotoxin. Measured against US import value, that runs at 13,968 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Ghana over the last 3 years.

Of these, 21 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

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

Recent rejections