Hong Kong — Fishery/Seafood Products
Hong Kong received 23 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2024-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, veterinary drug residue, and unsafe food additive. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Hong Kong, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Hong Kong
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 22 refusals in the last 3 years, 21 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (16); DNEI — Northeast (6).
- Riskiest months
- November, January, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (16), veterinary drug residue (6), unsafe food additive (5), pesticide residue (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- label not conspicuous (1), no process filing (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 17 | — | — | filth |
| Shrimp-Prawn | 5 | — | — | veterinary drug residue |
| Squid-Octopus | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- DBM-2606050-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- DBH-2001639-4 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DNEI. unsafe food additiveveterinary drug residue
- DBM-2604030-1 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- DP6-3036934-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- D77-3002483-4 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. unsafe food additiveveterinary drug residue
- EE3-1467876-8 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DNEI. veterinary drug residue
- 147-0247392-8 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- DP6-3036892-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- D77-0925064-2 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. unsafe food additiveveterinary drug residue
- MS5-4433769-6 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- K80-5137933-8 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- K80-5141742-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- K80-5141316-0 EEL Import division DWCI. unsafe food additivefilthveterinary drug residuepesticide residue
- HK1-2404480-9 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. unsafe food additiveveterinary drug residue
- K80-5138755-4 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- TZ6-6136886-8 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- TZ6-6137792-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- TZ6-6129783-6 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- K80-5134420-9 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- AEK-4787423-3 OYSTERS Import division DWCI. label not conspicuousno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 65 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 2026-09-11. To get new ones for Hong Kong by email, watch Hong Kong.
Hong Kong country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →