India — Coffee and Tea
India received 15 FDA import refusals in Coffee and Tea between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2023-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe food additive, nutrition labeling, and supplement GMP failure. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from India, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import coffee and tea from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 6 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (5); DNEI — Northeast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (3).
- Riskiest months
- January, August, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe food additive (5), filth (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (3), supplement GMP failure (3), false or misleading label (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 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- 1FX-3141803-2 TEA, BLACK Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- AEK-2062503-3 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- KM6-3650016-7 TEA, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- AEK-8510984-9 COFFEE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-8510991-4 COFFEE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- KM6-3653481-0 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- AEK-8539923-4 TEA, MIXED (GREEN AND BLACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- AEK-8510983-1 COFFEE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-4929867-4 TEA, BLACK Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- NF7-0001021-0 TEA, INSTANT, PLAIN Import division DWCI. false or misleading labelnutrition labelingSalmonella
- 8L5-0002265-8 TEA, GREEN Import division DNEI. labelingnutrition labeling
- AEK-4445055-7 COFFEE SUBSTITUTES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe food additive
- DP4-8618287-7 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- DP4-8618268-7 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- 8A2-1500585-1 TEA, SCENTED, DECAFFEINATED Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- 8RG-2349078-8 TEA WITH EXTRACTS OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. unsafe food additiveunapproved new drug
- 8A2-1500489-6 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. unsafe food additiveno net quantityunapproved new drug
- DP4-8591580-6 TEA, BLACK Import division DNEI. supplement GMP failurenutrition labelingunauthorized health claimunapproved new drug
- BUU-1370137-6 TEA, GREEN Import division DNEI. nutrition labeling
- 235-2340853-4 TEA, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 22 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 2026-09-15. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →