Spain — Fishery and Seafood Products
Spain received 14 FDA import refusals in Fishery and Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are HACCP failure, nutrition labeling, and filth. 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 fishery and seafood products from Spain
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 14 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 11 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (7); DNEI — Northeast (6); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- July, September, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (2), insanitary conditions (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- HACCP failure (5), nutrition labeling (3), no process filing (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 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 10 | — | — | HACCP failure |
| Tuna | 3 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| Squid-Octopus | 1 | — | — | filth |
"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
- 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
- EH1-0437865-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. filth
- 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
- 8XA-1921681-7 OCTOPUS, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DSEI. filth
- BLS-9047157-4 MUSSELS Import division DSWI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- AMG-0170080-0 ANCHOVY Import division DSEI. HACCP failure
- B3M-0007916-8 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. labeling
- 799-8208720-8 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. insanitary conditionsno net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labeling
- 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
- H67-1652439-1 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. HACCP failure
- F95-0061062-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. HACCP failure
- AEK-3551505-3 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. undeclared allergen
- CDX-0083651-2 OCTOPUS, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DSEI. filthlabeling
- NZ5-0043135-4 ANCHOVY Import division DSEI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 25 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 →