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.

least riskmost risk

← back to leaderboard

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.

Exporting from Mexico? Get an email when shipments from Mexico are refused at the US border — before your buyers ask.

Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

9 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 9 11 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 11 13 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 13 8 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 8 9 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 9 20 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 20 40 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 40 16 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 16 17 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 17 27 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 27 17 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 17 12 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 12

Recent rejections