Pakistan — Fruit and Fruit Products
Pakistan received 41 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 10 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, inadequate process control, and no acidified-food filing. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Pakistan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Pakistan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 44 refusals in the last 3 years, 37 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (20); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (9); DWCI — West Coast (8).
- Riskiest months
- March, January, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (21), poisonous or deleterious substance (10), lead (4), unsafe color additive (4), pesticide residue (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- inadequate process control (4), nutrition labeling (4), no acidified-food filing (3).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 26 | — | 3,446 | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Fruit-Other | 17 | — | — | filth |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | sulfites not declared |
| Berries-Grapes | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- KM6-3684761-8 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filthno process filing
- KM6-3674804-8 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-8678773-3 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DNBI. filthunsafe color additivecolor additive labelingnutrition labeling
- KM6-3663284-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3670004-9 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-1638764-3 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3660343-3 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- E6G-0629796-9 APRICOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. sulfites not declared
- 512-1099211-4 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- KM6-1626365-3 CHOKEBERRY, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3644834-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3648874-4 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. inadequate process control
- KM6-3642811-2 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- 8L5-0002566-9 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3638132-9 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-3642140-6 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. no process filing
- KM6-1624261-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DWCI. filth
- KM6-3632321-4 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-3633031-8 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 512-1097251-2 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
Data and downloads
Download all 79 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 2026-10-05. To get new ones for Pakistan by email, watch Pakistan.
Pakistan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →