India — Soft Drinks and Waters — Soft-Drinks

Higher risk. India ranks 2nd of 12 origins shipping soft-drinks to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 1,033 — above 91% of them.

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India received 22 FDA import refusals in Soft-Drinks, part of Soft Drinks and Waters between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 6 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are lacks n/c, usual name, and list ingre. Measured against US import value, that runs at 1,033 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from India over the last 3 years.

Of these, 4 were hazard refusals and 18 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

0 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 0 0 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 0 1 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 1 0 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 0 2 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 2 1 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 1 6 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 6 4 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 4 4 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 4 2 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 2 1 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 1 1 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 1

Recent rejections