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
Recent rejections
- BYX-0314869-3 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- BYX-0314651-5 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) pesticide
- H87-0302132-4 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- AZK-1156018-0 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- DR4-0705419-3 DSWIJALAPENO PEPPER, HOT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) poisonous
- DR4-0705409-4 DSWIJALAPENO PEPPER, HOT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) poisonous
- DR4-0705408-6 DSWIJALAPENO PEPPER, HOT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) poisonous
- AEK-0896482-6 DSEIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- DV1-0276886-3 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- AZK-1156252-5 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- B2M-8002426-8 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- B2M-8002421-9 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- B2M-8002422-7 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- B2M-8002404-5 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy
- 83U-1455501-7 DSWIPIMIENTO PEPPER, JUICE fsvp vio
- 83U-1455485-3 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) fsvp vio
- 83U-1455467-1 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) fsvp vio
- 83U-1455500-9 DSWIJALAPENO PEPPER, HOT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) fsvp vio
- 83U-1455619-7 DSWIPIMIENTO PEPPER, JUICE fsvp vio
- BJG-0216365-6 DSWIPEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE filthy