Japan — Vegetables and Vegetable Products

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Japan received 32 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 6 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe col, color lblg, and listeria. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Japan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 28 were hazard refusals and 4 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

3 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 3 3 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 3 2 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 2 2 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 2 4 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 4 3 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 3 3 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 3 6 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 6 2 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 2 3 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 3 0 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 0 1 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 1

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity Rejections Per $1B US imports Most-cited hazard
Vegetables-Other 32 6,552 unsafe col

Recent rejections