Mexico — Soft Drinks and Waters — Soft-Drinks

Lower risk. Mexico ranks 11th of 12 origins shipping soft-drinks to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 16.5 — above 9% of them.

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Mexico received 49 FDA import refusals in Soft-Drinks, part of Soft Drinks and Waters between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 13 in 2024-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe col, color lblg, and no english. Measured against US import value, that runs at 16.5 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.

Of these, 34 were hazard refusals and 15 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

7 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 7 2 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 2 3 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 3 13 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 13 4 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 4 3 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 3 3 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 3 4 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 4 5 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 5 2 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 2 1 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 1 2 2026-Q3 2026-Q3: 2

Recent rejections