Mexico — Fruit and Fruit Products — Tropical
Lower risk. Mexico ranks 12th of 13 origins shipping tropical to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 15.2 — above 8% of them.
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Mexico received 199 FDA import refusals in Tropical, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 40 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filthy, unsafe col, and color lblg. Measured against US import value, that runs at 15.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.
Of these, 191 were hazard refusals and 8 were paperwork refusals.
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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Recent rejections
- 635-1124606-6 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 635-1124566-2 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 02K-0000306-5 DSWIGUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT unsafe colcolor lblg
- DV1-0277753-4 DSWIMANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) salmonella
- 635-1123875-8 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 635-1124046-5 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 635-1123931-9 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 264-0819864-1 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 02K-0000216-6 DSWIMANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT labeling
- 259-4478409-6 DSWIMANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) salmonella
- 439-0438253-8 DSWIGUAVA (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- 439-0437901-3 DSWIGUAVA (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) pesticide
- 264-0819439-2 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 635-1123016-9 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 635-1122967-4 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- BJG-0202811-5 DSWIMANGOSTEEN (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) lacks firmlacks n/cusual name
- 635-1122644-9 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy
- 82P-0016601-8 DSWIGUAVA, TOPPING OR SYRUP unsafe collist ingrecolor lblglabeling+1 more
- 02K-0000116-8 DSWIGUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT unsafe colcolor lblgno englishlabeling+1 more
- 635-1121976-6 DSWIDATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) filthy