Peru — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Pepper

Higher risk. Peru ranks 2nd of 5 origins shipping pepper to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 85.9 — above 75% of them.

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Peru received 25 FDA import refusals in Pepper, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 8 in 2023-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, lacks n/c, and nutrit lbl. Measured against US import value, that runs at 85.9 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Peru over the last 3 years.

Of these, 25 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

8 2023-Q3 2023-Q3: 8 1 2023-Q4 2023-Q4: 1 0 2024-Q1 2024-Q1: 0 0 2024-Q2 2024-Q2: 0 0 2024-Q3 2024-Q3: 0 1 2024-Q4 2024-Q4: 1 0 2025-Q1 2025-Q1: 0 1 2025-Q2 2025-Q2: 1 4 2025-Q3 2025-Q3: 4 5 2025-Q4 2025-Q4: 5 1 2026-Q1 2026-Q1: 1 4 2026-Q2 2026-Q2: 4

Recent rejections