Russia — Chocolate and Cocoa Products
Russia received 3 FDA import refusals in Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, color not declared, and labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Russia, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of these, 1 were hazard refusals and 2 were paperwork refusals.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 2 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
"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
- 9AJ-0014399-3 CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOWS, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 9AJ-0005131-1 CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. labeling
- 9AJ-0836970-2 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
Data and downloads
Download all 3 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 2026-07-29. To get new ones for Russia by email, watch Russia.
Russia country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →