Mexico — Fruit and Fruit Products — Citrus

Lower risk. Mexico ranks 6th of 6 origins shipping citrus to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 4.6 — the lowest of them.

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Mexico received 20 FDA import refusals in Citrus, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, fsvp vio, and lacks firm. Measured against US import value, that runs at 4.6 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.

Of these, 16 were hazard refusals and 4 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

0 2023-Q3 2023-Q3: 0 0 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 0 4 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 4 1 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 1 1 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 1 3 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 3 1 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 1 1 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 1 1 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 1 2 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 2 5 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 5 1 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 1

Recent rejections