Thailand — Fruit and Fruit Products
Thailand received 98 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 25 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, poisonous substance, and sulfites not declared. 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 and fruit products from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 101 refusals in the last 3 years, 91 were hazard findings and 10 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (41); DWCI — West Coast (41); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (9).
- Riskiest months
- July, May, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (70), poisonous substance (12), unsafe color additive (7), poisonous or deleterious substance (3), cyclamate (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- not in English (9), no net quantity (5), nutrition labeling (5).
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 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 8 | 49,737 t | 20.8 | filth |
| Fruit-Other | 86 | — | — | filth |
| Berries-Grapes | 5 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 8 | 49,737 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
- AEK-2265463-5 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 8M6-0077442-0 MANGO, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. sulfites not declared
- 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
- 9AR-0447184-3 STRAWBERRY JUICE, BERRY JUICE OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynot in English+4 more
- 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
Data and downloads
Download all 154 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 →