Taiwan — Fruit and Fruit Products
Taiwan received 42 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 9 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unfit for food, unsafe color additive, and no process filing. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Taiwan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Taiwan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 43 refusals in the last 3 years, 38 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (27); DNEI — Northeast (11); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (4).
- Riskiest months
- September, January, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unfit for food (18), bulking agent added (5), poisonous or deleterious substance (5), unsafe color additive (5), filth (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (3), listing refusal (2), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 20 | — | — | unfit for food |
| Citrus | 9 | — | — | bulking agent added |
| Stone-Fruit | 7 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Berries-Grapes | 7 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Tropical | 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
- 349-2079592-8 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveunfit for foodno process filing
- FS2-2601345-6 PRUNES (DRIED PLUMS) (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-3673723-1 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, FLAVORED JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, BUTTERS AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- KM6-3673724-9 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, FLAVORED JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, BUTTERS AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- KM6-3677456-4 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, FLAVORED JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, BUTTERS AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- 9SJ-0013175-1 PLUM, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 349-2076923-8 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unfit for foodfilth
- 00R-0000943-2 LEMON, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DWCI. no process filing
- B9B-0076998-1 MULBERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIES Import division DWCI. listing refusal
- AY0-0136886-1 STRAWBERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BDD-0757695-8 OTHER FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- KM6-3663530-2 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, FLAVORED JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, BUTTERS AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- 349-2072483-7 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unfit for food
- AY0-0136353-2 STRAWBERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- HE8-0210967-9 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unfit for food
- T81-0223522-3 LEMON, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DWCI. bulking agent added
- HE8-0211080-0 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unfit for food
- KM6-3663280-4 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, FLAVORED JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, BUTTERS AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. filth
- HE8-0210898-6 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unfit for food
- HE8-0210818-4 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unfit for food
Data and downloads
Download all 83 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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Taiwan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →