Mexico — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other

Lower risk. Mexico ranks 28th of 31 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 20.0 — above 10% of them.

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Mexico received 355 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 49 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, fsvp vio, and insanitary. Measured against US import value, that runs at 20.0 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.

Of these, 328 were hazard refusals and 27 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

35 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 35 37 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 37 29 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 29 38 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 38 41 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 41 49 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 49 25 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 25 7 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 7 15 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 15 39 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 39 33 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 33 7 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 7

Recent rejections