Mexico — Chocolate and Cocoa Products
Mexico received 6 FDA import refusals in Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are poisonous or deleterious substance, not in English, and nutrition labeling. Measured against US import value, that runs at 2.8 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import chocolate and cocoa products from Mexico
Lower risk. Mexico ranks 8th of 8 origins shipping Chocolate and Cocoa Products to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 2.8 — the lowest of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (3); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (3).
- Riskiest months
- December, November, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- poisonous or deleterious substance (3), filth (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (1), not in English (1), nutrition labeling (1).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate-Cocoa | 6 | 75,612 t | 2.8 | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 6 | 75,612 t |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- SCS-7786521-7 CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY, WITH FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. filth
- 799-4014221-2 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- EFP-2512016-8 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- WC1-1419573-6 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- WC1-1411146-9 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 799-2465986-6 CHOCOLATE BARS Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
- 8BH-0302390-0 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- WC1-9930849-3 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- SCS-4715364-1 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynot in Englishno common name+1 more
- WC1-9810390-3 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. poisonous substance
- EFP-2109923-4 CHOCOLATE CHIPS Import division DSWI. unsafe food additivepoisonous or deleterious substance
- 9JR-0030380-0 CHOCOLATE BARS Import division DSWI. unsafe food additive
Data and downloads
Download all 12 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-08-13. To get new ones for Mexico by email, watch Mexico.
Mexico country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →