Spain — Fishery and Seafood Products — Fish-Other
Spain received 10 FDA import refusals in Fish-Other, part of Fishery and Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, HACCP failure, and no food-canning registration. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Spain, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fish-other from Spain
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 10 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 10 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (5); DSEI — Southeast (4); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- September, January, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Paperwork to get right
- HACCP failure (5), no process filing (2), nutrition labeling (2).
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- H67-1714258-1 CLAMS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. false or misleading label
- 551-2611596-0 ANCHOVY Import division DNEI. no process filing
- AFP-2520379-4 MACKEREL (ONLY SCOMBEROMORUS SPP EG. SPANISH OR KING) Import division DSEI. HACCP failure
- 799-3396867-1 ANCHOVY Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- BLS-9047157-4 MUSSELS Import division DSWI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- AMG-0170080-0 ANCHOVY Import division DSEI. HACCP failure
- 224-3307153-1 COD Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- 224-3305935-3 COD Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- 224-3305864-5 COD Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- 87D-0026088-8 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- H67-1652674-3 AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS, N.E.C., Import division DSEI. no food-canning registration
- NZ5-0043135-4 ANCHOVY Import division DSEI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
- AEK-1831709-7 ANCHOVY Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- M92-3161604-3 COD Import division DSWI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- AVB-3077363-0 ANCHOVY Import division DWCI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 15 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 2026-07-30. To get new ones for Spain by email, watch Spain.
Spain country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →