India — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Pepper
Lower risk. India ranks 5th of 5 origins shipping pepper to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 14.6 — the lowest of them.
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India received 6 FDA import refusals in Pepper, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, needs fce, and no process. Measured against US import value, that runs at 14.6 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from India over the last 3 years.
Of these, 5 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.
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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Recent rejections
- BTF-4055734-6 DWCIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- RTW-0035069-3 DNBIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) needs fceno process
- K80-5148388-2 DWCIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- K80-5148436-9 DWCIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticidesalmonella
- KM6-3645484-5 DWCIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- KM6-3644115-6 DWCIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- U52-8740501-8 DSEIPEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) needs fceno process