Spain — Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum
Spain received 16 FDA import refusals in Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2025-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, and color not declared. 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 candy without chocolate, candy specialties, and chewing gum from Spain
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 16 refusals in the last 3 years, 12 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (7); DSEI — Southeast (7); DNEI — Northeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- January, October, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (12), FD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (6), nutrition labeling (5), ingredients not listed (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy | 16 | 8,681 t | 36.7 | unsafe color additive |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 16 | 8,681 t |
"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
- SCS-6482627-2 CANDY WITHOUT CHOCOLATE N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-1729601-9 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 1FX-0571712-8 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 799-2639388-8 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listednutrition labelingFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
- SCS-7761216-1 LOLLIPOP (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-1148077-5 LOLLIPOP (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-1507487-1 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 799-1115964-1 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. false or misleading labelcolor not declarednutrition labeling
- W24-1409173-6 FLAVORED CANDY, HARD (LIVE SAVERS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- J21-0113862-1 FLAVORED CANDY, SOFT (LIVE SAVERS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- EWV-2155513-8 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- SCS-5555060-7 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedcolor not declared
- 900-0196939-4 HARD CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- W24-1408131-5 FLAVORED CANDY, HARD (LIVE SAVERS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivelabel not conspicuous
- SCS-6820577-6 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedcolor not declaredno manufacturer name+3 more
- 9K9-1023469-6 CANDY WITHOUT CHOCOLATE N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivenot in English
- MU8-0054357-9 SOFT CANDY WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. labeling
- EI5-2345443-4 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labelingFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
- N35-0302712-9 SOFT CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. flavor not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling
- AFP-2114163-4 FONDANT CANDY PIECES, SOFT, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. ingredients not listednot in English
Data and downloads
Download all 23 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Spain country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →