Mexico — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Pepper

Above the median. Mexico ranks 3rd of 5 origins shipping pepper to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 30.5 — above 50% of them.

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Mexico received 178 FDA import refusals in Pepper, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 25 in 2024-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filthy, fsvp vio, and poisonous. Measured against US import value, that runs at 30.5 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.

Of these, 164 were hazard refusals and 14 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

15 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 15 12 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 12 13 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 13 12 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 12 25 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 25 13 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 13 12 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 12 8 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 8 24 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 24 18 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 18 13 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 13 13 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 13

Recent rejections