South Korea — Fishery/Seafood Products
South Korea received 37 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 13 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are HACCP failure, listing refusal, and Salmonella. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from South Korea, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from South Korea
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 36 refusals in the last 3 years, 21 were hazard findings and 15 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (23); DNEI — Northeast (7); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (4).
- Riskiest months
- April, June, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary conditions (5), undeclared allergen (4), insanitary plant (4), poisonous or deleterious substance (4), Salmonella (4).
- Paperwork to get right
- HACCP failure (8), listing refusal (5), label not conspicuous (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 27 | — | — | listing refusal |
| Squid-Octopus | 9 | — | — | undeclared allergen |
| Shrimp-Prawn | 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
- B7S-2605071-7 MUSSELS Import division DWCI. filthSalmonella
- AEF-0039240-9 FILEFISH Import division DWCI. listing refusal
- EPM-0196013-3 SQUID, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 9NX-0007847-0 ANCHOVY Import division DWCI. filth
- EPM-0194749-4 OCTOPUS, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. HACCP failure
- EKY-2604128-8 FISH SAUCE, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. no process filing
- BCM-0107043-0 POLLACK, POLLOCK Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- BCM-0107035-6 SQUID, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- EPM-0193906-1 SQUID, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. HACCP failure
- EH3-2670852-4 SQUID, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- U47-2602039-7 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. refused establishment inspectionlisting refusal
- AN1-0911906-3 SAURY Import division DNBI. HACCP failure
- EKY-2603152-9 CRAB CHOWDER/SOUP/STEW/BISQUE, MIXED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. HACCP failure
- BCM-0106881-4 POLLACK, POLLOCK Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- B7S-2601021-6 MACKEREL (ALL EXCEPT SCOMBEROMORUS SP, EG SPANISH OR KING SEE '22') Import division DWCI. no process filing
- B7S-2603064-4 SAURY Import division DWCI. listing refusal
- EPM-0193910-3 FISH ROE, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. HACCP failure
- EUG-0048222-4 ANCHOVY Import division DWCI. insanitary plant
- E8L-2513280-9 POLLACK, POLLOCK, COLD SMOKED, FISH Import division DWCI. refused establishment inspection
- U47-2515567-3 SOLE Import division DNEI. listing refusal
Data and downloads
Download all 82 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 2026-09-21. To get new ones for South Korea by email, watch South Korea.
South Korea country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →