Thailand — Fruit and Fruit Products — Fruit-Other
Thailand received 84 FDA import refusals in Fruit-Other, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 23 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, poisonous substance, and poisonous or deleterious substance. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Thailand, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit-other from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 86 refusals in the last 3 years, 80 were hazard findings and 6 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (40); DWCI — West Coast (36); DNEI — Northeast (6).
- Riskiest months
- May, October, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (68), poisonous substance (12), poisonous or deleterious substance (2), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- not in English (6), nutrition labeling (3), false or misleading label (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 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 23 | 23 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- AEK-2265463-5 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- BUU-1844760-3 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. filth
- CHQ-2283442-0 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- AEK-2184178-7 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-2127505-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-2080871-2 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-0813168-1 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substancefilth
- AEK-9692353-5 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- BUU-1834936-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. filth
- AEK-9677623-0 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- EJ2-0204156-5 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- AEK-9612223-7 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- SCS-3976683-5 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- EB5-1628089-9 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- AEK-9735568-7 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-4229350-4 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. filth
- J34-0107096-9 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. filth
- DZ1-1188134-5 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. filth
- AEK-2025110-3 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-0776320-3 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 124 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 2026-10-21. To get new ones for Thailand by email, watch Thailand.
Thailand country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →