Guatemala — Fruit and Fruit Products — Citrus

Higher risk. Guatemala ranks 2nd of 6 origins shipping citrus to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 922.2 — above 80% of them.

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Guatemala received 35 FDA import refusals in Citrus, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 12 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no english, juice %, and nutrit lbl. Measured against US import value, that runs at 922.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Guatemala over the last 3 years.

Of these, 25 were hazard refusals and 10 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

1 2023-Q3 2023-Q3: 1 4 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 4 5 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 5 1 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 1 2 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 2 12 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 12 0 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 0 3 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 3 5 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 5 1 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 1 0 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 0 1 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 1

Recent rejections